At the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) annual meeting, it was standing room only at a session dedicated to why the ...

Tricuspid regurgitation can be organic from actual valve or leaflet damage, or functional from tricuspid annular dilation. Even in the setting of severe tricuspid regurgitation, right heart ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart's main ... Rheumatic fever is uncommon in the U.S. among people born after 1943. The tricuspid valve separates the heart's right-sided chambers: the right ...

and was associated with annular rupture (Figure 11). Despite emergency surgery with successful aortic valve replacement and arch repair, the patient died 1 month later. In a second case of acute ...

The classic triad of symptoms from aortic stenosis ... a person with rheumatic mitral valve stenosis is a candidate for percutaneous mitral balloon valvotomy. Tricuspid regurgitation rarely ...