Multimodality Imaging Approach for Planning and Guiding Direct Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Annuloplasty.

Interest in transcatheter treatment of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) has grown significantly in recent years due to increasing evidence correlating TR severity with mortality, and to limited availability of surgical options often considered high-risk in these patients. Although edge-to-edge repair is currently the main transcatheter therapeutic strategy, tricuspid valve (TV) direct annuloplasty can also be performed safely and effectively to reduce TR and improve heart failure symptoms and quality of life.
Source: Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Review Articles Source Type: research