title: [Preoperative assessment of tricuspid valve disease].
abstract: The illness to the tricuspid valve from a rheumatic origin, requires an adequate study during the preoperative time. The measurement to the tricuspid valve ring, which is determined by an echocardiography demonstrating a dilation from above 30 mm, has to be considered as an organic disease and not as a functional one. This means that this dilation must be surgically treated with anuloplasty or a valve substitution, otherwise the possibilities of a residual tricuspid regurgitation are very high. It is also important to perform a transjugular liver biopsy in those cases where a moderated or severe tricuspid regurgitation is present, allowing to detect those patients who have a severe hepatic malfunction (coagulophaty) and backing them up during and after the surgical procedure.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cardiología Adultos, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología, Ignacio Chávez, INCICH, Juan Badiano No. 1, 14080 México, D.F.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martínez Reding
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011300:Preoperative Care; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography