Open AccessSuccessful staged tricuspid valve replacement following cardiac resynchronization therapy in a congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries
Author(s) -
Asagai Seiji,
Takeuchi Daiji,
Sugiyama Hisashi,
Nagashima Mitsugi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.2272
Subject(s) - medicine , great arteries , cardiac resynchronization therapy , tricuspid valve , cardiology , transposition (logic) , heart failure , heart disease , ejection fraction , linguistics , philosophy
Simple tricuspid valve surgery for complex heart disease with systemic right ventricular dysfunction is a high‐risk procedure; however, staged tricuspid valve surgery following cardiac resynchronization therapy seems to be a beneficial method to expect reverse systemic ventricular remodeling.