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. 2010 Oct 12;12(6):587–597. doi: 10.1007/s11936-010-0098-1

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Outcomes of Mayo Clinic patients with primary tricuspid regurgitation (TR) caused by flail tricuspid valve (TV) leaflets. A Observed survival compared with expected survival for a matched population in the United States. Left panel shows excess mortality observed in patients with tricuspid flail leaflets with or without associated disease. Right panel shows high mortality of patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic primary TR with exclusion of cohort analyzed from left panel of TR patients with associated disease. B Incidences of combined endpoint of symptoms, heart failure, new atrial fibrillation, cardiac surgery, or death in asymptomatic TR patients. (Reprinted from Messika-Zeitoun D, Thomson H, Bellamy M, et al. Medical and surgical outcome of tricuspid regurgitation caused by flail leaflets. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2004, 128(2):296–302, with permission from Elsevier. Copyright © 2003, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.).