T he prevalence of valve regurgitation in healthy people has been previously examined by echocardiography. Pulmonary regurgitation or tricuspid regurgitation (TR) was common, mitral regurgitation (MR) was less common, and aortic regurgitation was generally undetectable. In addition, the prevalence of regurgitant signals varies with age or sex. Assuming that a low prevalence of regurgitant signa...

OBJECTIVE To assess the degree of agreement between the fetal echocardiographic and postmortem examination of hearts from fetuses with severe malformations of the tricuspid valve. DESIGN A retrospective study to analyse echocardiographic recordings and make comparisons with postmortem findings. SETTING Tertiary referral centre for fetal echocardiography. Institute for cardiac morphology. ...

Using blood speckle tracking (BST) based on high-frame-rate echocardiography (HFRE), we compared right ventricle (RV) flow dynamics in children with atrial septal defects (ASDs) and repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF). Fifty-seven rTOF severe pulmonary insufficiency (PI) (n = 21), large ASDs 11) healthy controls (CTL, n 25) were included. a phantom, studied the effects imaging plane smoothing p...

Traumatic tricuspid regurgitation is a rare complication of blunt chest trauma. With the increase in the number of automobile accidents, traumatic tricuspid regurgitation has become an important problem after blunt chest trauma. It has been reported more frequently because of better diagnostic procedures and a better understanding of the pathology. The early diagnosis of traumatic tricuspid reg...

A 25-year-old female developed high-grade atrioventricular block and markedly elevated central venous pressure after sustaining a crushing injury to the chest while driving a car. An echocardiographic examination with color Doppler revealed severe tricuspid regurgitation due to a torn papillary muscle. An extensive review of the literature showed the following: 1) correct diagnosis is often del...

Background: Cardiac murmur and subsequently cardiac failure is one of the poor-performance causes in athletic horses. Attention to murmur character is vital during heart examination. Polo is a sport which demands very high stress on horses, which may result in more stress on cardiovascular system. Objectives: In this study we assume that high pressure on polo horses makes them more susceptible ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence and development of valvular regurgitation and its effect on racing performance in Standardbred trotters from 2 to 3.5 years of age. DESIGN Longitudinal observational study. ANIMALS 103 horses. PROCEDURE Horses were examined via echocardiographic imaging 4 times at 6-month intervals. Two-dimensional and M-mode echocardiographic examinations were performe...

We present a case of isolated prolapse of the tricuspid anterior leaflet in an asymptomatic 34-year-old man who was referred to our hospital for a routine check up. We performed two-and three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE). We found three-dimensional TEE a useful, non-invasive tool that can provide additional information to two-dimensional echocardiography in the assessment...

Percutaneous replacement of the aortic and pulmonic valves has rapidly gained acceptance in clinical practice as a feasible alternative to open valve surgery in patients deemed to be at high operative risk.1,2 Total percutaneous tricuspid valve replacement (TVR), on the other hand, has not yet been documented in humans, although this approach has been described in experimental animals.3 Webb et...

Background. Tricuspid valve regurgitation (TR) after orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) is common. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of TR after OHT, to examine the correlation between its development and various variables, and to determine its outcomes. Methods. All 163 OHT patients who were followed up between 1988 and 2009 for a minimal period of 12 months were divi...