Health professionals are encouraged to take the ESC/EACTS Guidelines fully into account
when exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the …

Heightened interest in tricuspid regurgitation (TR) stems from the consistent association of
mortality with greater severity of TR, and a low use of surgical solutions in the setting of high …

Health professionals are encouraged to take the ESC/EACTS Guidelines fully into account
when exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the …

The “Guidelines on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease” were initially published as
the “Guidelines on Non-pharmacological Treatment of Valvular Heart Disease” in 2002 …

Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is classified according to different morphologic types based on
the underlying mechanisms: primary, secondary, and isolated TR. Primary TR is caused by …

Recenzenci dokumentu: Marco Roffi, koordynator recenzji ze strony CPG (Szwajcaria),
Ottavio Alfieri1, koordynator recenzji ze strony EACTS (Włochy), Stefan Agewall (Norwegia) …

731 F. Beyersdorf and A. Vahanian et al./European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
guidelines, which is freely available via the ESC and EACTS website and hosted on the EHJ …

Highlights•RV function echocardiographic assessment plays a key role in many clinical
settings.•Normal parameters for evaluation are quite accurate for assessment of RV …

Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular (RV) function is a challenge due to the
complex anatomy of the RV. Several transthoracic echocardiographic methods have been …

Background Three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (3D-STE) has been
increasingly used to quantify right ventricular (RV) function. However, direct comparisons of …