Assessment After Surgery or Interventional Procedures on the Tricuspid Valve

The association of better understanding of the role of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) as an independent predictor of patients’ morbidity and mortality, and the advent of novel transcatheter devices to treat severe TR have contributed to increase the interest of cardiologists and cardiac surgeons about the tricuspid valve (TV). The number of transcatheter interventions for TR is growing, and procedural success relies significantly on the pre-procedural evaluation of the anatomy of the TV, etiology and severity of TR, right ventricular size and function, and importantly, the anatomic relationships of the TV. The role of three-dimensional echocardiography and multimodality imaging in patient selection and procedural planning for transcatheter TV repair is reviewed.