Valvular & structural heart disease
Prognostic implications of atrial vs. ventricular functional tricuspid regurgitation
Authors' conclusion
Patients with AFTR had significantly better survival as compared with patients with VFTR, as well as all VFTR subtypes, independently of other clinical and echocardiographic characteristics.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with severe functional tricuspid regurgitation, aetiology by echocardiography
- Participants
- 1,037 patients
- Exposure
- Atrial functional tricuspid regurgitation (AFTR) vs ventricular functional tricuspid regurgitation (VFTR)
- AFTRn = 129reference
- VFTRn = 425
- VFTR: left-sided cardiac diseasen = 340
- VFTR: pulmonary hypertensionn = 37
- VFTR: RV dysfunctionn = 48
- Outcome
- All-cause mortality (long-term)
- Follow-up
- 10 years
Main finding
Cumulative 10-year survival
Hazard ratio
2.292
P < 0.001
By group
As reported in the abstract
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Prognostic implications of atrial vs. ventricular functional tricuspid regurgitation. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. Published 10 February 2023. doi:10.
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