122 HEART BLOCK COMPLICATING TRICUSPID VALVE REPLACEMENT IN CHILDREN

Carcinoid heart disease: successful tricuspid valve replacement.

A woman aged 46 was found to have severe tricuspid valve disease 14 years after the diagnosis of a malignant carcinoid tumour of the ileum and 33 years after the onset of symptoms attributable to the disease. Increasing ascites requiring repeated paracentesis had not responded to chemotherapy including infusion of 5-fluorouracil and vincristine into the coeliac artery. The tricuspid valve was r...

Heart valve replacement in children.

[Heart valve replacement in children].

Percutaneous tricuspid valve replacement in congenital and acquired heart disease.

OBJECTIVES This study sought to describe the first human series of percutaneous tricuspid valve replacements in patients with congenital or acquired tricuspid valve (TV) disease. BACKGROUND Percutaneous transcatheter heart valve replacement of the ventriculoarterial (aortic, pulmonary) valves is established. Although there are isolated reports of transcatheter atrioventricular heart valve rep...

Early outcomes of tricuspid valve replacement in young children.

BACKGROUND Early outcomes after tricuspid valve replacement in young children are ill defined. The experience of the Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium (45 centers, 1984 to 2002) was reviewed to evaluate the results of tricuspid valve replacement in children <6 years of age. METHODS AND RESULTS Ninety-seven patients who underwent initial tricuspid valve replacement are included in the present ...