OBJECTIVES This study examined the association between the presence of tricuspid regurgitation and immediate and late adverse outcomes in patients undergoing balloon mitral valvuloplasty. BACKGROUND Significant tricuspid regurgitation has an adverse impact on morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery for mitral stenosis. METHODS We studied 318 consecutive patients ...

A six-year-old child was suffering from pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect after a total correction at 1 year of age using a bovine pericardial monocusp valve in the reconstruction of the right ventricle outflow tract. The infant evolved with significant pulmonary valve regurgitation (PVR) and right ventricle dysfunction. On reoperation, a cryopreserved pulmonary homograft (CPH) w...

Background—Transcatheter pulmonary valve placement is an emerging therapy for pulmonary regurgitation and right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in selected patients. The Melody valve was recently approved in the United States for placement in dysfunctional right ventricular outflow tract conduits. Methods and Results—From January 2007 to August 2009, 136 patients (median age, 19 years) un...

BACKGROUND Transcatheter pulmonary valve placement is an emerging therapy for pulmonary regurgitation and right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in selected patients. The Melody valve was recently approved in the United States for placement in dysfunctional right ventricular outflow tract conduits. METHODS AND RESULTS From January 2007 to August 2009, 136 patients (median age, 19 years) ...

aly characterized by the absence of the pulmonary valve. The absence of the pulmonary valve, along with the hypoplasia of the pulmonary annulus, leads to aneurysmal dilatation of the pulmonary artery and its branches. Other consequences include pulmonary stenosis and pulmonary insufficiency (1). The 3-day-old baby presented with cyanosis and tachypnea. He had to and fro murmurs at the upper lef...

Tricuspid valve endocarditis is a disease primarily found in intravenous drug abusers. It occurs much less often than left-sided endocarditis and has a better prognosis. The triad of intravenous drug abuse, Staphylococcus aureus septicemia, and pulmonary embolism with or without a tricuspid regurgitation murmur can be pathognomonic for tricuspid valve endocarditis. Pulmonary signs and symptoms ...

Systemic tricuspid valve regurgitation increases mortality and morbidity in patients with a corrected transposition of the great arteries. A 17-year old male with a physiologically corrected transposition after the closure of a ventricular septal defect and conduit placement between a morphological left ventricle and pulmonary artery presented with exertional dyspnoea. The transthoracic echocar...

OBJECTIVE Pulmonary regurgitation may cause progressive right ventricular dilatation and dysfunction in adult patients previously repaired for right ventricular outflow tract obstruction (RVOTO), and who require subsequent valve implantation for relief of these symptoms. Right ventricular recovery after pulmonary valve implantation (PVI) may be closely linked to the functional importance of the...

UNLABELLED A 67-year-old man with myelodysplastic syndrome, disseminated histoplasmosis, and mitral valve replacement presented with dyspnea and peripheral edema. Transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated abnormal pulmonic valve with possible vegetation. Color flow imaging showed laminar flow from main pulmonary artery into right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) in diastole. The continuous wa...