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John P. Vavalle, MD, MHS, FACC, and Matthew A. Cavender, MD, MPH, FACC, interventional cardiologists and their collaborative team in the Structural Heart Disease Program at UNC, have performed their first transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement in the clinical setting, a revolutionary treatment for patients living with a common type of heart valve disease.<\/em><\/p>\n

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(Left to Right) Thelsa Thomas Weickert, MD; Matthew A. Cavender, MD, MPH, FACC; John Vavalle, MD, MHS, FACC; and John S. Ikonomidis, MD, PhD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the first time in the state of North Carolina, the structural heart team at UNC Hospitals has performed a transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement in the clinical setting. The implant, which was only the 12th in the United States, is a revolutionary treatment for patients living with tricuspid valve regurgitation (TR), a common type of heart valve disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have a\u00a0percutaneous,\u00a0minimally invasive way to fix tricuspid valve regurgitation and offer valve replacement without\u00a0the need for\u00a0open heart surgery,\u201d said\u00a0John Vavalle, MD, MHS, FACC<\/a>, medical director of the\u00a0Structural Heart Disease Program<\/a> at UNC Hospitals and associate professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine. \u201cIt\u2019s only at a place like UNC, where there is this spirit of collaboration and this desire to push the technology forward, that you can do this kind of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 5 in 1,000 people in the United States have severe tricuspid valve regurgitation.\u00a0The condition occurs when the\u00a0tricuspid valve,\u00a0the valve that separates the right atrium and the right ventricle\u00a0of the heart, does not close properly. As a result, blood cannot be ejected to the lungs to be oxygenated and instead flows back into the body.<\/p>\n

Without treatment,\u00a0the condition can become life threatening.\u00a0It can cause fluid buildup in the abdomen and legs and weakening of the\u00a0heart muscle, resulting in\u00a0fatigue, low energy, breathlessness, and\u00a0even\u00a0kidney failure.\u00a0Medicines like diuretics can help improve swelling from the fluid buildup, but fixing a leaky valve previously required open heart surgery.<\/p>\n

Read the full story on UNC Health Newsroom.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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