The tricuspid valve plasty in the surgical treatment of chronic pulmonary thromboembolism
Todurov, B.M.
Klinichna Khirurhiia 1: 39-41
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 15786841 Document Number: 588096
Chronic pulmonary thromboembolism causes persistent rising of pressure in the pulmonary artery system. Durable existing of hypertension promotes the right ventricle dilatation together with tricuspid valve insufficiency occurrence, dramatizing the disease clinical course and prognosis. There were considered the surgical methods of the tricuspid cardiac valve insufficiency correction. The performance of the tricuspid valve plasty according to De Vega and using supporting ring of Carpentiere was proposed, basing on experience of surgical treatment of chronic pulmonary thromboembolism and postthrombotic pulmonary hypertension.