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Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement: will it prevail?

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is a prevalent and challenging condition associated with poor survival outcomes and significant morbidity. The advent of transcatheter tricuspid interventions has provided new therapeutic possibilities, particularly for high-risk patients who are ineligible for conventional surgery.

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Columbia Cardiology Launches New Mitral & Tricuspid Center

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Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s Division of Cardiology has announced its launch of the Mitral & Tricuspid Center. Tricuspid and mitral valves are debilitating conditions that can lead to arrhythmias, hypertension, and heart failure.

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Reassessing the role of tricuspid valve surgery in the modern era

Heart BMJ

The tricuspid valve (TV), historically deemed the ’forgotten valve’, is undergoing a renaissance as mounting evidence highlights its critical role in cardiovascular outcomes.

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Novel Tricuspid Valve Procedure Improves Patients' Quality of Life and Health Status

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milla1cf Fri, 06/21/2024 - 20:10 June 21, 2024 — UC San Francisco interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed the health system’s first commercial transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedure using the Edwards EVOQUE system. by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Smidt Heart Institute Physicians Advance Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement

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Physicians in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have pioneered using a catheter-based approach to treat patients with tricuspid valve disease. The first 100 minimally invasive tricuspid procedures were done as part of the TRISCEND II clinical trial. Image by Getty. Image by Getty. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center Treats First Patient in New Jersey with Edwards’ EVOQUE Tricuspid Valve Replacement

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milla1cf Thu, 04/25/2024 - 17:21 April 25, 2024 — Atlantic Health System ’s Morristown Medical Center treated the first patient in New Jersey using Edwards Lifesciences EVOQUE tricuspid valve replacement, the first transcatheter therapy to receive U.S. According to National Institutes of Health an estimated 1.6 million people in the U.S.

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Common Imaging Test Uses AI to Help Identify Heart Valve Disease

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tim.hodson Wed, 04/16/2025 - 14:19 April 16, 2025 An artificial intelligence (AI) program trained to review images from a common medical test can detect early signs of tricuspid heart valve disease and may help doctors diagnose and treat patients sooner, according to research from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. Photo: Getty.