作者
Fahad Alqahtani, Chalak O Berzingi, Sami Aljohani, Mohamad Hijazi, Ahmad Al‐Hallak, Mohamad Alkhouli
发表日期
2017/12/22
期刊
Journal of the American Heart Association
卷号
6
期号
12
页码范围
e007597
简介
Background
Tricuspid regurgitation (TR), if untreated, is associated with an adverse impact on long‐term outcomes. In recent years, there has been an increasing enthusiasm about surgical and transcatheter treatment of patients with severe TR. We aim to evaluate the contemporary trends in the use and outcomes of tricuspid valve (TV) surgery for TR using the National Inpatient Sample.
Methods and Results
Between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2014, an estimated 45 477 patients underwent TV surgery for TR in the United States, of whom 15% had isolated TV surgery and 85% had TV surgery concomitant with other cardiac surgery. There was a temporal upward trend to treat sicker patients during the study period. Patients who underwent isolated TV repair or replacement had a distinctly different clinical risk profile than those patients who underwent TV surgery simultaneous with other surgery. Isolated TV …
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