Tricuspid regurgitation can be organic from actual valve or leaflet damage ... is predominantly made on physical examination and echocardiography. The subjective size of the regurgitant jet ...

Diagnosis is predominantly via echocardiography, which can visualize the rheumatically thickened, immobile valve leaflets. Pressure gradients across the tricuspid valve are measured. Patients with ...

Until recently, tricuspid regurgitation (TR)—often referred to as the “forgotten valve disease”—had ... given that advanced echocardiography is essential to procedural success.

Echocardiography revealed features consistent with carcinoid heart disease (CHD). Tricuspid and pulmonary valve leaflets were thickened, retracted and fixed. Severe tricuspid regurgitation ...

Where this device will fit in with other emerging options remains to be seen, but it might hold an advantage in large annuli.

A normal aortic valve ... of the leaflets, which leads to a hard, calcified valve that cannot open completely. More commonly ...

The LuX itself features a trileaflet prosthetic stent valve design and two graspers for the anterior leaflet. The device stands out for being "specifically designed to treat the tricuspid valve from ...

is used to place one or more tiny clips on the tricuspid valve leaflets to prevent blood from leaking back into the right atrium. In this randomized controlled trial, patients were randomly ...

Holston Valley Medical Center is the first hospital in East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Southeast Kentucky to offer innovative new procedures for repairing and replacing the tricuspid valve ...