Abstract
Between January 1977 and August 1988, twenty-four patients (Congenital heart disease: CHD 12 and acquired valular disease: AHD 12) were treated by tricuspid valve replacement. There were no operative and late death in CHD, bud were one operative and one late deathswi th congestive heart failure in AHD, Fifteen bilogical cardiac valves and 10 mechanical valves were used in TVR and one patient had primary tissue failure at 9.8 years and two patient with Duromedics valve had thrombosed valve at 30 and 33 months postoperafively.
