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Flexible band versus rigid ring annuloplasty for functional tricuspid regurgitation: two different patterns of right heart reverse remodelling

Friday, June 24, 2016

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Source

Source Name: Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg

Source URL: http://icvts.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/1/79.abstract

Author(s)

Giuseppe Gatti, Luca Dell'Angela, Marco Morosin, Luca Maschietto, Bruno Pinamonti, Bernardo Benussi, Gabriella Forti, Gian Luigi Nicolosi, Gianfranco Sinagra, and Aniello Pappalardo

The authors compared the results of annuloplasty with flexible and rigid rings in patients with tricuspid valve regurgitation. This is a propensity score-matched analysis with 98 pairs. They concluded that both rings are equally effective, however the rigid one causes a more complete right heart reverse remodelling.