Regression of Tricuspid Regurgitation after Pulmonary Endarterectomy

Method We performed analysis of patients who were operated on during the period between years 2004-2011. The data was collected from a set of 100 patients, 65 men and 35 women. Only 1 patient underwent concomitant tricuspid valve surgery tricuspid valve repair. We analyzed different echocardiographic parameters of all our patients prior to operation and then 1 month, and 3 years after the procedure. We were mostly interested into the degree of tricuspid regurgitation, then the right ventricle function and presence of pulmonary hypertension. Repeated measures ANOVA with Fisher post-hoc test was used for evaluating the differences between the consecutive measurements.