Combined mitral and tricuspid valve repair in rheumatic valve disease: fewer reoperations with prosthetic ring annuloplasty.

Background: We examined predictors of early and very long-term outcome after combined mitral and tricuspid valve repair for rheumatic disease.

Methods And Results: Between 1974 and 2002, 153 consecutive patients (mean age, 46.0+/-13.

[Cardiac cephalgia: an underdiagnosed condition? ].

Cardiac cephalgia, or headache occurring as manifestation of myocardial ischemia, has only recently been recognized as a distinct entity. In patients with known ischemic cardiopathy, its diagnosis depends on the presence of severe headache that is accompanied by nausea, worsened by physical exercise, and only ceases with nitrate administration. We report on two patients who met diagnostic criteria for this entity.

Reoperations after tricuspid valve repair.

Objective: The objective was to analyze the short- and long-term results of patients with previous tricuspid valve repair who had valve dysfunction and required cardiac reoperations.

Methods: Between 1976 and 2002, 74 patients with a mean age of 53.8 +/- 12.

Tricuspid valve repair: an old disease, a modern experience.

Background: We review our experience in patients who required surgical correction of tricuspid valve disease with concomitant disease of the mitral or aortic valve, or both, operated on between 1987 and 1999.

Methods: We studied 232 consecutive patients (mean age, 59.8 years) followed for a mean of 6.