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SUBMITTER: Demir OM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156134 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Demir Ozan M OM Regazzoli Damiano D Mangieri Antonio A Ancona Marco B MB Mitomo Satoru S Weisz Giora G Colombo Antonio A Latib Azeem A
Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine 20180919
Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) may affect as much as 65-85% of the population with the prevalence of moderate-to-severe TR in the United States reported at greater than 1.6 million. However, only 8,000 tricuspid valve operations are performed annually in the United States. As severe TR is associated with poor outcomes, there is an unmet clinical need for surgical or percutaneous transcatheter based treatment of TR. Over the last two decades there have been significant developments in percutaneous ...[more]