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indications for surgery patients with moderate or severe tricuspid regurgitation that is functional will need tricuspid annuloplasty at the time
quantification of tricuspid regurgitation echocardiography and right ventricular angiogram can quantify tricuspid regurgitationecho
this is the amount of blood that is returned to the heart by the veins this is influenced by various factors inspiration decreases the pressure in
organic tricuspid regurgitationhere the valve is anatomically abnormal etiology of organic tricuspid regurgitation1 rheumatic2 non rheumatic1
the vascular tone increases as the arterial size decreases the tone at any time reflects the effects of excitory and inhibitory pathways
an adequate level of pressure is needed in the arteries to keep the blood flowing through the cardiovascular system the chief determinant of arterial
functional regurgitation dilatation of right ventricle and tricuspid annulus leads to regurgitation this is the most common type associated with
the cardiac output is the volume of blood pumped from the heart every minute it is obtained by the volume pumped with each beat stroke volume
types of surgery tricuspid valvotomy is done as an open procedure at the end of surgery on mitral andor aortic valve it can be done on an
the phases of the cardiac cycle are1 atrial systolethis begins with the p-wave of the ecg the atrio-ventricular valves are open and the
tricuspid stenosis acquired tricuspid stenosis is most often due to chronic rheumatic carditis rarely could it be due to right atrial tumors or
mixed aortic stenosis and regurgitation the combined aortic valve stenosis and regurgitation may be of congenital or acquired aetiology as in
aortic valve replacement with replacement of aortic root when there is aneurysm of ascending aorta with aortic regurgitation aortic root
in this unit you have learnt that heart failure is one of the most common conditions seen and results in a high mortality it can result from failure
results largely depends on the lv function in most centres surgical mortality is 3 to 4 percent for patients with severe lv dysfunction the immediate
unfortunately unlike heart failure due to systolic dysfunction diastolic heart failure has been studied in few clinical trials so there is little
aortic valve replacement technique surgical technique is not much different from what has already been described for aortic stenosis care must
despite the technologic advances of recent years many patients with chronic heart failure are elderly and have multiple comorbidities many of them
in experimental studies gene therapy has been shown to improve failing human myocardial function the abnormal function of myocytes obtained from
cardiomyoplasty this is a procedure wherein the latissimus dorsi muscle is wrapped around the heart and stimulated to contract synchronously with it
aortic valve repair in acquired ar associated with vsd and prolapse of a cusp repair is often successful vsd is closed and at the same time the
for patients with end-stage heart failure cardiac transplantation has become a promising therapy especially with the advent of immunosuppressive
this innovative pacemaker-based approach to the treatment of patients with heart failure who have a wide qrs complex gt140 ms on 12-lead ecg aims at
indications for emergency surgery in ar1 post balloon valvotomy ar with haemodynamic compromise2 acute thrombosis of prosthetic valve not responding