We describe a 73 year-old patient with mitral valve pericardial bioprosthesis Carpentier-Edwards 29M implanted due to the rheumatic mitral stenosis 21 years ago. Hemodynamic destabilisation had emerged 18 months before the admission. Echocardiography revealed significant bioprosthesis degeneration with calcification of its leaflets, small pannus on the bioprosthetic ring, moderate mitral stenos...

An inverted Edwards SAPIEN 23 mm valve was implanted in a 14-year-old patient with Ebstein's anomaly who received a Medtronic Mosaic 25 mm valve 8 years earlier and presented with significant progressive symptoms related to severe valvular regurgitation and moderate stenosis. The procedure was performed via the femoral vein using the RetroFlex 3 system and predilatation of the tricuspid valve, ...

Three case histories of patients with isolated traumatic tricuspid regurgitation are reported. Clinical features are compared and contrasted to the I3 cases previously reported. The benign nature of the lesion is emphasized by the long-term follow-up periods of 39, I3, and 31 years respectively. The presence of a normal systolic pressure in the right ventricle may be one reason why isolated sev...

A 38-year-old female patient with a history of tetralogy of Fallot repair at 10 years of age underwent pulmonary valve replacement with a mechanical prosthesis, tricuspid annuloplasty, and right ventricular outflow tract cryoablation due to pulmonary regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, and multiple premature ventricular contractions with sustained ventricular tachycardia. After surgery, she...

ital, T tal, Te c aort A 53-year-old woman presented to our center with progressive fatigue and dyspnea on exertion (New York Heart Association functional class III). The patient’s medical history was significant for multiple cardiac interventions: open mitral commissurotomy for the treatment of rheumatic mitral stenosis 30 years earlier, mitral valve replacement for the treatment of severe mit...

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