Tricuspid regurgitation prevalence in general hospital patients

Abstract

Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is a widespread valvular heart disease. Most times life expectancy doesn’t depend on trace to mild degrees of TR. Tricuspid valve surgery is probably recommended for patients with moderate to severe TR because of their poor long-term outcomes. It is necessary to study TR in different patients. The aim of this work was to study the incidence of TR in general hospital and to investigate moderate to severe TR incidence rate. We analyzed 50.647 transthoracic echocardiograms (TTE) done in Federal State Governmental Establishment «Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital» of Russian Federation Defense Ministry in 2004–2019. The median age of patients was 56 years (age 54.23±17.95 years). We discovered 44.854 cases of TR. Moderate to severe TR was detected in 5.735 (11.3%) patients (age 68.11±14.42 years, M=71 years). In general hospitals TR can be found in 88% of patients. Patients with moderate to severe TR are older patients with progressive TR. Male patient with severe TR is often older than a female patient.