UNLABELLED Severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) after blunt chest trauma is rare and often results from damage to the subvalvular apparatus. When injured, the damaged subvalvular apparatus may break immediately or at a later stage due to mechanical fatigue. We report the case of a 30-year-old man who sustained a blunt thoraco-abdominal trauma in a motorbike accident. The patient's condition imme...

The echocardiogram (on October 21) showed normal left ventricle, dilated and hypokinetic right ventricle, mitral valve calcification, commissural fusion, moderate stenosis and moderate tricuspid regurgitation (Table 2). Transesophageal echocardiogram (on October 21) showed pulmonary artery dilation with a large thrombus image (10 × 5.0 cm) extending to its left branch and the presence of autoco...

BACKGROUND Longer survival after the total repair of the Tetralogy of Fallot increases the importance of late complications such as right ventricular dysfunction. This is a prospective study of the right ventricular function in totally corrected Tetralogy of Fallot patients versus healthy children. METHODS Thirty-two healthy children were prospectively compared with 30 totally corrected Tetra...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) may develop in patients with atrial septal defects (ASD); however, little is known about associated risk factors and its evolution after transcatheter ASD closure. METHODS AND RESULTS We conducted a cohort study on 215 adults with attempted transcatheter ASD closure from 1999 to 2006. Patients were classified according to baseline systolic pulm...

Background—Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) may develop in patients with atrial septal defects (ASD); however, little is known about associated risk factors and its evolution after transcatheter ASD closure. Methods and Results—We conducted a cohort study on 215 adults with attempted transcatheter ASD closure from 1999 to 2006. Patients were classified according to baseline systolic pulmon...

A straightforward tricuspid valve repair technique is illustrated here, which may be employed either for functional (normal valve with dilated annulus) or for primary or organic (Ebstein's anomaly, leaflet retraction/tethering and chordal malposition/tethering, with annular dilatation) tricuspid valve incompetence and for moderate and severe degrees of incompetence, without any residual regurgi...

Objective: To define the entity of tricuspid regurgitation caused by tethering of the tricuspid valve leaflets by aberrant tendinous chords. Design: Retrospective study. Setting: Tertiary care centre (university teaching hospital). Patients: 10 patients with unexplained severe tricuspid regurgitation. Methods: The last 13 500 echocardiographic studies from our facility were reviewed to identify...

OBJECTIVE To determine the likelihood ratio for trisomy 21 in fetuses with tricuspid regurgitation at the 11 to 13 + 6-week scan. METHODS Fetal echocardiography was carried out by specialist pediatric cardiologists in 742 singleton pregnancies at 11 to 13 + 6 weeks' gestation and pulsed wave Doppler was used to ascertain the presence or absence of tricuspid regurgitation. To avoid confusion w...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of short- and mid-term survival of tricuspid valve (TV) repair versus conservative therapy in patients with preoperative moderate functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve (MV) surgery. METHODS Between January 2002 and December 2009, a total of 430 patients with pure mitral regurgitation an...

Three patients with normal hearts and no pulmonary abnormality had neonatal tricuspid regurgitation causing cardiorespiratory distress and cyanosis. The signs of tricuspid regurgitation resolved over a few weeks. In the acute phase echocardiography showed gross dilatation of the right atrium and ventricle. The interatrial septum bulged into the left atrium during the whole cardiac cycle. Dopple...