Medical Generally, medical rather than surgical treatment of TR is recommended if the cause is right ventricular dilatation or left-sided heart failure. Surgical Tricuspid valve replacement using either a mechanical prosthesis or a bioprosthesis may be indicated. Mechanical prostheses may cause thromboembolic phenomena, bioprostheses may have a degeneration problem. Some evidence suggests that there are no significant differences between a mechanical or biological tricuspid valve in a recipient. Surgery vs. no surgery for TR has been statistically assessed by looking back on consecutive series of hospital cases, mainly of secondary causes. In these cases, one finds that surgery predicts outliving non-surgery cases initially matched in health ~60% of the time (HR = .74).
Tricuspid regurgitation
Aortic regurgitation
Mitral regurgitation
Mitral stenosis
Tricuspid valve stenosis
Aortic stenosis
Mitral valve prolapse
Pulmonary valve stenosis