Reverse remodeling of tricuspid valve morphology and function in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension patients following pulmonary thromboendarterectomy: a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and invasive hemodynamic study.
Christian Alcaraz FrederiksenFarhad WaziriSteffen RinggaardSøren MellemkjærTor Skibsted ClemmensenVibeke Elisabeth HjortdalSten Lyager NielsenSteen Hvitfeldt PoulsenPublished in: BMC cardiovascular disorders (2021)
In CTEPH patients selected for PEA, TV tenting height, volume and valve area are significantly increased whereas annulus size and shape are less affected. The alterations in TV morphology are fully reversed after PEA and correlates to improvements of right ventricular-pulmonary arterial coupling.