Severity of tricuspid regurgitation is associated with long-term mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the association between intraoperative/presurgical grade of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) and mortality, and to determine whether surgical correction of TR correlated with an increased chance of survival compared with patients with uncorrected TR.

Methods

The grade of TR assessed by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) before surgical intervention was reviewed for 23,685 cardiac surgery patients between 1990 and 2014. Cox proportional hazard regression models were used to determine association between grade of TR and the primary endpoint of all-cause mortality. Association between tricuspid valve (TV) surgery and survival was determined with Cox proportional hazard regression models after matching for grade of TR.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Kelly BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5819734 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature