Severe tricuspid valve regurgitation is not an innocent finding to be ignored!

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¹ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: petterg@ccf.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Gösta B Pettersson et al. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Dec.

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. 2014 Dec;7(12):1195-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.08.008.

¹ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: petterg@ccf.org.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Keywords: effective regurgitant orifice; isolated tricuspid regurgitation; prognosis; tricuspid regurgitation.

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Clinical outcome of isolated tricuspid regurgitation.
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