It's now possible to manage a severe leaky right heart valve, or what is medically termed as tricuspid regurgitation, without having open heart surgery. The superior vena cava carries blood from your head, neck, upper chest and arms, while the inferior vena cava carries blood from the rest of the body below that. While this delivery system does not disturb the native leaky tricuspid valve, the two valves deployed in the vena cava effectively help to replace its function and reduce the symptoms of heart failure that result from severe tricuspid regurgitation. In tricuspid regurgitation, the valve between the two right heart chambers (right atrium and right ventricle) – known as the tricuspid valve – has become leaky, allowing blood to flow back into the heart’s right atrium. coexisting mitral regurgitation in the left heart valve.
