Valve disease turns on one recurring question: when does watchful waiting stop serving the patient. This archive covers aortic stenosis and regurgitation, mitral and tricuspid disease including the resurgence of interest in the right heart, rheumatic valve disease, prosthetic valve assessment and infective endocarditis. Articles address echocardiographic grading and its pitfalls, low-gradient and discordant states, stress testing and biomarkers in asymptomatic severe disease, cardiac MRI and CT calcium scoring, and the transcatheter versus surgical conversation now reaching mitral and tricuspid intervention. Systematic reading is available in our diagnosis and imaging course books and the cardiology exam bundles.
A facilitated teaching module on transcatheter tricuspid repair, built around one unfolding case: a 76-year-old woman after mitral valve replacement with torrential tricuspid regurgitation and a pacemaker lead across the valve. Includes a worked TRI-SCORE table, the device-choice discussion, facilitator notes and take-home messages.
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Severe symptomatic aortic stenosis carries a poor prognosis untreated. How transcatheter aortic valve replacement changed the options, and who it suits.
