The tricuspid valve controls blood flow between the right atrium and right ventricle. The bicuspid or mitral valve does the same on the left. The heart consists of four chambers.

An echocardiogram is the primary diagnostic tool used for tricuspid regurgitation. Also called a diagnostic cardiac ultrasound, this test uses ultrasound technology to produce images of your heart ...

The mitral valve (bicuspid valve) has two cusps or leaflets. Usually, the tricuspid valve has three cusps. Sometimes there may be two or four cusps.

Patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement had similar rates of stroke and all-cause mortality at 30 days and 1 year regardless of whether they had bicuspid or tricuspid aortic ...

Transcatheter tricuspid valve annuloplasty is designed to improve the function of the tricuspid valve with less morbidity and mortality than conventional surgical annuloplasty. It has been proposed as ...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an established therapeutic option for high-risk patients with a tricuspid aortic valve, but patients with a bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) are ...

A mechanically expanding transcatheter aortic valve performed similarly in patients with bicuspid valves compared with those with tricuspid valves, according to 2-year data from the RESPOND study ...

Bicuspid Aortic-Valve Disease In a separate presentation, Dr Timm Bauer (Heart Center Ludwigshafen, Germany) presented outcomes for 38 patients from the German TAVI registry who had congenital ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) provides comparable stroke and mortality rates out to 1 year in low-risk patients with bicuspid and tricuspid aortic stenosis, registry data suggest.