Edge-to-edge repair for tricuspid regurgitation: 1-year follow-up and clinical implications from the TR-Interventional Study.

Aims: Tricuspid regurgitation affects 7% of the population, with moderate-to-severe tricuspid regurgitation contributing to up to 12% of heart failure-related hospitalizations. Traditional treatments have several limitations, prompting the exploration of innovative interventions. Our study aims to investigate the efficacy and clinical outcomes following transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) in patients with severe, symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation through a 1-year follow-up.

Cardiac Surgery and Transcatheter Intervention for Valvular Heart Disease in Carcinoid Syndrome: Risk Factors, Outcomes, and Evolving Therapeutic Strategies.

Carcinoid heart disease (CHD) affects right-sided valves and causes significant mortality and morbidity. Even though the pathophysiology of the disease is not entirely understood, it is known that chronic exposure to high levels of circulating serotonin is the main factor responsible for developing valvular heart disease. Cardiac imaging plays a critical role in the management of CHD, so the final diagnosis can be performed through multimodal imaging techniques and the measurement of biomarkers.

3D transesophageal echocardiographic assessment of acute reverse remodeling of the tricuspid annulus after transcatheter edge-to-edge repair.

Aims: Our study aims to evaluate the acute remodeling of the tricuspid valve annulus immediately after the T-TEER by using intraprocedural transesophageal three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography.

Methods And Results: We prospectively enrolled 62 consecutive symptomatic patients with at least severe TR, who underwent T-TEER with the TriClip System between March 2021 and June 2024. The following parameters were assessed using a multiplanar reconstruction analysis performed off-line using a 3D dataset: septal-lateral (SL) and antero-posterior (AP) annulus diameters; annulus area; annulus perimeter and eccentricity index.

A case study on the endeavour to identify the "unidentifiable" fallen soldiers of WWI on the Italian front.

If there is a category of war victims for whom the identification process has been and still remains an extremely challenging issue, it is the soldiers of World War One. There are various reasons for this, including unreliable identity tags, the unprecedented number of casualties, and the level of destruction caused by the massive use of "new" weapons. In Italy, this phenomenon was so severe and well-known that a monument was erected in Rome specifically in memory of those unknown soldiers ("Tomba del Milite Ignoto").