{"id":703,"date":"2025-10-01T14:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/?page_id=703"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:57:46","slug":"mitral-valve-disease","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/diseases-and-treatments\/mitral-valve-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricuspid Valve Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tricuspid Regurgitation<\/h3>\n<p>Tricuspid regurgitation occurs when there is back-flow of blood in your tricuspid valve. This leakage increases the blood in the atrium which can change pressure in the heart and blood vessels and may lead to heart damage. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tricuspid regurgitation also reduces the efficiency of blood flow, which can cause fatigue and shortness of breath. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"blue\">EVOQUE Tricuspid Valve Replacement System<\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_707\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 284px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/409\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-01-at-2.05.10-PM-300x253.png\" alt=\"EVOQUE Tricuspid Valve Replacement System\" width=\"274\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/409\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-01-at-2.05.10-PM-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/409\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-01-at-2.05.10-PM-1024x863.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/409\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-01-at-2.05.10-PM-768x647.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/409\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-01-at-2.05.10-PM-600x505.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/409\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-01-at-2.05.10-PM.png 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Image by Edwards Lifesciences \u2122 LLC, Irvine, CA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The EVOQUE is a transcatheter valve replacement device that replaces the tricuspid valve in the right side of the heart. It can be inserted without open heart surgery, allowing patients to potentially avoid the risks of such an operation. EVOQUE devices are used to address tricuspid regurgitation and increase the efficiency of blood flow, which can alleviate the fatigue and shortness of breath associated with heart failure. The EVOQUE device is inserted via a small incision in the femoral vein and maneuvered into the heart without needing to make an incision in the cardiac tissue. Once it reaches the heart, the EVOQUE will inflate to the size of the tricuspid valve and replace its function.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tricuspid Regurgitation Tricuspid regurgitation occurs when there is back-flow of blood in your tricuspid valve. This leakage increases the blood in the atrium which can change pressure in the heart and blood vessels and may lead to heart damage. Tricuspid regurgitation also reduces the efficiency of blood flow, which can cause fatigue and shortness of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/diseases-and-treatments\/mitral-valve-disease\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tricuspid Valve Disease\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120718,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703\/revisions\/711"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}