title: Role of concomitant tricuspid surgery in moderate functional tricuspid regurgitation in patients undergoing left heart valve surgery.
abstract: Functional tricuspid regurgitation (FTR) is frequently present in patients undergoing aortic, and particularly mitral valve, surgery. Untreated FTR may lead to right heart failure. Reoperative cardiac surgery for late FTR is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Therefore, severe FTR has emerged as a Class I indication for concomitant tricuspid valve surgery in patients undergoing left valve surgery. Concomitant tricuspid valve surgery during left heart valve surgery to address moderate and mild FTR is controversial. This review addresses this issue and proposes an algorithm for the treatment of FTR in patients undergoing left heart valve surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,  Papworth Hospital, Cambridge,  UK.
authors.forename: Balakrishnan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mahesh
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.forename: Samer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nashef
authors.forename: Sukumaran
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nair
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000601:surgery*; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*