Tricuspid Insufficiency after Laser Lead Extraction

Tricuspid Insufficiency

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...

Isolated tricuspid insufficiency.

Isolated tricuspid insufficiency can be a well-tolerated lesion, as illustrated by a 32year follow-up in one patient reported here. A second case of recent onset is also described. The 13 reported cases of isolated tricuspid insufficiency due to trauma can be divided into two groups: ruptured papillary muscle or ruptured chordae tendineae and/or valve. All patients with ruptured papillary muscl...

Transjugular lead fragment extraction to improve tricuspid regurgitation

Introduction A 28-year-old-man with a history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis, and HIV-related cardiomyopathy with a severely reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) per a transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) underwent implantation of a singlechamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)...

Severe Tricuspid Valve Injury During Right Ventricular Lead Extraction.

Diagnosis of Functional Tricuspid Insufficiency

Twenty-four healthy subjects and 33 patients with left-sided valvular heart disease in atrial fibrillation were studied using a pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound system connected to a 900 two-dimensional echocardiography device. Systolic turbulence in the right atrium (RAST) was studied, and the ratio of maximum systolic velocity to maximum diastolic velocity ratio (MSV:MDV) was determined in the ...