Insuficiencia tricuspídea : técnicas ecocardiográficas para evaluar la valvulopatía olvidada

Abstract

The tricuspid valve is traditionally known as the forgotten valve because of the least importance in the published literature and clinical trials available until a few years ago. Echocardiography with its different imaging modalities remains the gold standard to determine the mechanism and severity of tricuspid regurgitation. In recent years, research permits 3D technique to be implemented both in the transthoracic (TT) and transesophageal (TE) echocardiogram, to evaluate the tricuspid valve anatomy from its atrial or ventricular aspect, allowing the structure of its leaflets to be analyzed, its anatomical variations and the different mechanisms or lesions that can affect its proper functioning generating tricuspid regurgitation with the consequences in morbidity and mortality.