Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, Sherif E. Moustafa, Jamil Tajik, Tahlil Warsame, Usha Emani, Mohsen Alharthi, Farouk Mookadam Section of Cardiology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan,Aurora Cardiovascular Division, Aurora-St Lukes Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ, USA |
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Background and aim of the study: Right-sided valve abnormalities are less common than their left-sided counterparts. Furthermore, whilst organic rheumatic involvement of the tricuspid valve is not uncommon, it receives less attention than left-sided heart valves. An evidence-based systematic overview was carried out to assess the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of organic rheumatic tricuspid valve disease (RTVD) over the past half century. |
mitral valve disease was present in 99.3% of the patients with RTVD. A total of 1,092 patients (mean age 45.4 years) was included from six studies on surgical correction of the tricuspid valve. Of these patients, 278 (25.4%) underwent tricuspid valve replacement, while 814 (74.5%) had tricuspid valve repair. The in-hospital mortality was 9.9%, and late mortality 33.2% |
Rheumatic Tricuspid Valve Disease: An Evidence-Based Systematic Overview |
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