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  • Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement and valve-in-valve in patient with unusually calcified tricuspid valve

    Keywords

    Mixed tricuspid valve disease
    Tricuspid stenosis
    Tricuspid regurgitation
    Transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement
    Tricuspid valve-in-valve
    An 87-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic renal insufficiency presented with New York Heart Association functional class III symptoms and severe mixed tricuspid valve disease. Given complexity of his anatomy and high surgical risk, he was selected for transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) with a 48 mm Evoque valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA). Because of severe COPD from a 100-pack year smoking history, the procedure was performed under conscious sedation with intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) guidance. Preprocedural fluoroscopy and computed tomography revealed a heavily calcified tricuspid valve (Fig. 1, Video 1), and echocardiography demonstrated both significant stenosis and severe tricuspid regurgitation (Fig. 2, Video 2).

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