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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center N4W94, 22 South Green St, Baltimore, MD 21201

(Email: jgammie@smail.umaryland.edu).

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Gottardi and colleagues [1] are to be congratulated on an outstanding series of tricuspid valve operations for infective endocarditis. The authors have clearly illustrated techniques that allowed repair of 82% of infected tricuspid valves during a 7-year timeframe without perioperative mortality. This group has also demonstrated superior durability of tricuspid valve repair, with all surviving patients free of severe tricuspid regurgitation at mid-term follow-up.

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