[Tricuspid incompetence after surgical correction of mitral and mitrio-aortic value diseases. Reasons for its persistence or its recurrence].

53 patients with mitral or aortic valve disease, observed consecutively, had before operation a marked tricuspid incompetence. 24 had, in the course of corrective mitral or mitral-aortic correction, a surgical attempt at treatment of tricuspid regurgitation; in theremaining 29, tricuspid incompetence was not corrected surgically. The course of the latter group was studied (average follow-up period after operation = 18 months): the operative mortality was 10.