Adding tricuspid repair to standard open heart surgery does not increase risk but improves right ventricular function

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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate outcome of concomitant tricuspid annuloplasty in mild or moderate regurgitation on perioperative outcome and on right ventricular function in patients undergoing major cardiac surgery. METHODS: Among 14 500 patients who underwent cardiac surgery at our institution between January 2000 and April 2016, 1023 patients had a documented history of tricuspid regurgitation (TR). Of those patients, 324 patients were diagnosed with mild or moderate secondary TR with a dilated annulus (≥40 mm or >21 mm/m2) and composed the study population. The decision to perform concomitant annuloplasty was subjected to the individual decision of the treating surgeon. Our analysis focused on a comparison between patients with concomitant TR-repair (group 1, n = 184) and patients without concomitant TR-repair (group 2, n = 140) after propensity score matching. RESULTS: Following a preliminary data preprocessing, we observed a mean age of 73.8 years, mean logistic EuroSCORE of 10.5%. Perioperative mortality was 4.4% in group 1 and 5.7% in group 2. There was no significant difference in mid-term mortality. TR after surgery was significantly higher in group 2. After propensity score matching regression analysis, patients who had a repaired tricuspid valve (group 1) had better right ventricle (RV) function than those without TR-repair (group 2) (P > 0.05 at 95% confidence interval following Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness of fit Test). CONCLUSIONS: Adding tricuspid valve repair in patients with mild or moderate secondary TR with a dilated annulus (≥40 mm or >21 mm/m2) to standard open heart surgery does not increase perioperative risk but improves right ventricular function. Therefore, standard tricuspid repair in this subgroup might be considered on a routine basis.

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Pingpoh, C., Nuss, S., Kueri, S., Kreibich, M., Czerny, M., Beyersdorf, F., & Siepe, M. (2019). Adding tricuspid repair to standard open heart surgery does not increase risk but improves right ventricular function. In Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (Vol. 29, pp. 416–421). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivz106

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