Dr Boris Orlov
Dr Boris Orlov
Dr Boris Orlov
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Systematic Tricuspid Valve Repair<br />
Rationale for Surgical Correction<br />
The low risk of tricuspid repair, high prevalence of late<br />
secondary tricuspid regurgitation, the inability to reliably<br />
predict which patients will develop secondary regurgitation,<br />
and the high mortality and morbidity associated with severe<br />
tricuspid regurgitation, it may ultimately prove beneficial to<br />
perform prophylactic tricuspid repair in most patients having<br />
mitral valve surgery regardless of the presence of annular<br />
dilatation or regurgitation<br />
Anyanwu A, Chikwe J, and David H. Adams, MD, Current Cardiology Reports 2008, 10:110–117