Right-Sided Valve Disease Deserves a Little More Respect

Right-sided valve disease deserves a little more respect.

Historically, right-sided valvular disease has received less attention from clinicians and researchers than left-sided valve disease, in part because of a protracted latent asymptomatic period. Moreover, because tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is often due to left-sided valve disease and pulmonary regurgitation (PR) is often secondary to congenital cardiac disease, the underlying disorder rather t...

Right sided heart evaluation after successful mitral valve replacement.

Introduction: It is well-documented that right-sided heart dysfunction and significant tricuspid valve regurgitation (TVR) have adverse effects on patient outcomes after left-sided heart valve surgery. Therefore, the evaluation of right ventriclular (RV) function and TR severity in patients who had undergone mitral valve replacement (MVR), associated with/without concomitant su...

On a not-dead horse: CPP deserves more respect.

Lower incidence but more aggressive behavior of right sided breast cancer in Pakistani women: does right deserve more respect?

BACKGROUND The aim of this epidemiological study was to establish the laterality of breast cancer (BC) and its association with size, receptor status of the primary tumor and bone metastasis (BM) in a local population. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study included cases of BC from Jan-2009 to Dec-2011 who were referred for metastatic work up or follow up survey with Technetium-99m M...

Valve disease INJECTION DRUG USE AND RIGHT SIDED ENDOCARDITIS

If William Osler were alive today he would no doubt remark on the fundamental change in the nature of the disease that he originally described. Staphylococcal endocarditis in injection drug users is now the dominant form of the disease in many urban communities where there is a high incidence of injection drug use and homelessness. At our institution (a tertiary care, university affiliated hosp...