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Mild-to-moderate functional tricuspid regurgitation in patients undergoing valve replacement for rheumatic mitral disease: the influence of tricuspid valve repair on clinical and echocardiographic outcomes
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- Published on: 18 September 2012
- Published on: 18 September 2012Surgery for rheumatic mitral valve disease and the forgotten role of concomitant organic tricuspid valve impairment.Show More
Dear Editor,
I read with interest the recent paper by Kim and co-authors on "Mild- to-moderate functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) in patients undergoing valve replacement for rheumatic mitral valve (MV) disease".1 The authors, reporting on 236 patients divided into two groups, concluded that compared with MV replacement alone, concomitant TV repair was associated with better postoperative TV function that ma...
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