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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Goldberg YH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7917079 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine 20210215
Severe tricuspid regurgitation is relatively common, especially in the elderly, and portends poor survival. Neither medical therapy nor conventional surgery is efficacious for most patients. In contrast, transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions are showing promise to improve quality of life and mortality. Although there is more clinical experience with transcatheter tricuspid valve repair, there are many patients for which repair is either not possible or cannot optimally reduce the severity ...[more]