The clinical diagnosis of the presence and severity of tricuspid insufficiency is difficult and is complicated by the transient nature of this abnormality as well as its usual occurrence in subjects with other valve disease. This paper presents correlative hemodynamic data from 100 consecutive catheterized patients with valvular heart disease in 90 of whom the presence of tricuspid insufficienc...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine early and late outcome of tricuspid valve repair for Ebstein's anomaly in young children. METHODS Between October 1974 and November 2003, 52 children (25 boys) underwent tricuspid valve repair and annuloplasty for Ebstein's anomaly. Mean age was 7.1 +/- 3.9 years (range, 5 months to 12 years). Concomitant procedures included atrial septal de...

Libman-Sacks endocarditis (LSE), characterized by verrucous vegetations formation, is a typical cardiac manifestation of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). It primarily leads to lesions of cardiac valves and mostly involved valves are mitral and aortic, but isolated tricuspid valve involvement is exceptional. Here we reported a 20...

PATIENT Female, 62 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Tricuspid regurgitation Symptoms: Dyspnea exertional • fatigue • leg edema MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Cardiology. OBJECTIVE Challenging differential diagnosis. BACKGROUND Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) can mimic some hemodynamic findings of constrictive pericarditis (CP), due to the restraining effect of the enlarged right heart on inta...

Presented is a case of a young, polytoxicomaniac male with a history of intravenous drug abuse. He arrived at our department in a septic state with fever and showed signs of right-sided decompensated cardiac insufficiency. The patient tested positive for hepatitis C, and blood cultures were positive for Staphylococcus aureus. A thoracic computed tomographic scan revealed bilateral, multiple sep...

Method We performed analysis of patients who were operated on during the period between years 2004-2011. The data was collected from a set of 100 patients, 65 men and 35 women. Only 1 patient underwent concomitant tricuspid valve surgery tricuspid valve repair. We analyzed different echocardiographic parameters of all our patients prior to operation and then 1 month, and 3 years after the proce...

A 60-year-old, asymptomatic woman with no relevant cardiac history underwent 2-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography as part of a study protocol. The echocardiogram (Fig. 1) indicated the presence of a large mobile mass on the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve without notable regurgitation or obstruction. Electrocardiographic, chest radiographic, and laboratory values were within nor...