Background The quantification of valvular regurgitation by CMR is usually a second-line diagnostic tool that is used when echocardiography has proven inconclusive. According to guidelines are aortic and mitral regurgitations considered severe if the regurgitation volume > 60 ml and regurgitation fraction > 50 %. Regurgitation of a single heart valve may be calculated by comparing LVSV and RVSV ...

As a progressive atrial myopathy, the etiopathogenesis of AF is multifactorial. For example, valvular heart disease are found in 30% of AF patients and in mitral stenosis and/or regurgitation chronic atrial stretch is a well known pathophysiological factor in the occurrence of AF [1,3,4]. Indeed, mitral valve prolapse with or without regurgitation, calcification of the mitral annulus, tricuspid...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to describe the first human series of percutaneous tricuspid valve replacements in patients with congenital or acquired tricuspid valve (TV) disease. BACKGROUND Percutaneous transcatheter heart valve replacement of the ventriculoarterial (aortic, pulmonary) valves is established. Although there are isolated reports of transcatheter atrioventricular heart valve rep...

Objective: Patients with end stage ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (IsDCM) exhibit extensive remodeling of the left ventricle, and significant mitral tricuspid regurgitation. We investigated if implantation artificial valve preservation native could be used as a method combined annuloplasty complete myocardial revascularization in IsDCM.

Complications of pacemaker implantation include myocardial perforation, venous thrombosis, vegetations of the tricuspid valve or pacing lead, and tricuspid regurgitation. We report a patient presenting with a case of delayed ventricular lead perforation through the right ventricle. The lead was uneventfully extracted under transesophageal echocardiographic observation in the operating room with...

This patient had primary Hypereosinophilic endomyocarditis “Loffler’s Endomyocarditis” complicated by intraventricular thrombosis, mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation, and associated with heparin induced thrombocytopenia syndrome. He underwent valve surgery twice for recurrence of Left ventricular thrombosis and valve dysfunction. This rare disease is characterized by peripheral hypereosin...

Many patients with ventriculoarterial discordance have survived to adulthood. Those with complete transposition of the great arteries have often had an atrial switch procedure (Mustard or Senning operation) performed, which leaves the morphological right ventricle (RV) supporting the systemic circulation. RV failure and tricuspid regurgitation are common. Some patients may ultimately require ca...

BACKGROUND Functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) occurs in patients with rheumatic mitral valve disease even after mitral valve surgery. The aim of this study was to analyze surgical results of TR after previous successful mitral valve surgery. METHODS From September 1996 to September 2008, 45 patients with TR after previous mitral valve replacement underwent second operation for TR. In tho...

Objective: Evaluate the efficacy of the extended vertical transseptal approach in mitral valve reoperation with a small left atrium. Method: From January 2001 to December 2002, 15 patients with previous mitral operation, small left atrium and atrial fibrillation underwent mitral valve surgery through an extended vertical transseptal incision. There were nine women and six men. Their ages ranged...