Severe tricuspid valve insufficiency causes right atrial dilatation, venous congestion, and reduced atrial contractility, and may eventually lead to right heart failure. We report a case of a patient with severe tricuspid valve insufficiency, right heart failure, and a massively dilated right atrium. The enormously dilated atrium compressed the right lung, resulting in a radiographic appearance...

Libman-Sacks endocarditis (LSE), characterized by verrucous vegetations formation, is a typical cardiac manifestation of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). It primarily leads to lesions of cardiac valves and mostly involved valves are mitral and aortic, but isolated tricuspid valve involvement is exceptional. Here we reported a 20...

A rare presentation with rapidly progressive right heart failure due to tricuspid inflow obstruction (simulating right-sided valvular heart disease) caused by a non-coronary cusp sinus of Valsalva aneurysm with small perforation is reported. The aneurysm was causing ball valve obstruction at the tricuspid valve, leading to dilated right atrium and back pressure changes which were relieved after...

CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS is an uncommon disorder with a wide varietv of manifestations. This communication documents two patients who presented with features of a cardiac murmur indicative of tricuspid valve stenosis. In both, exploratory surgery revealed a large cyst within scarred pericardium, narrowing the tricuspid valve. The first patient had generalized constrictive pericarditis. The sec...

DMBlackstone EH. Tricuspid valve repair: durability and risk factors for failure. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;127:674–85. [13] Chumnanvej S, Wood MJ, MacGillivray TE, Vidal Melo MF. Effect of tricuspid annuloplasty on postoperative tricuspid regurgitation following left ventricular assist device implantation. Anesth Analg 2006; 102:SCA54. [14] Scalia GM, McCarthy PM, Savage RM, Smedira NG, Th...

Secondary tricuspid regurgitation is the most frequent type of tricuspid insufficiency in western countries. Its surgical treatment is still an object of debate both in terms of timing and surgical techniques. Until recently, the avoidance of surgery for tricuspid repair was commonly accepted in patients with less than severe secondary tricuspid regurgitation undergoing left-sided valve surgery...

AIMS Multidetector row computed tomography (MDCT) may help to understand the underlying mechanisms of functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR), a highly prevalent valve disease with novel transcatheter therapies under development. The purpose of the present study was to assess the geometrical changes of the tricuspid valve in patients with functional TR using MDCT and to correlate these changes ...

BACKGROUND Preoperative factors associated with increased mortality and worse outcome after tricuspid valve replacement in patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation are poorly understood. METHODS AND RESULTS We retrospectively analyzed 189 patients (37% men; age, 67.5±11.3 years) who underwent tricuspid valve replacement for severe tricuspid regurgitation. Operative mortality rate was 10%,...

CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS is an uncommon disorder with a wide varietv of manifestations. This communication documents two patients who presented with features of a cardiac murmur indicative of tricuspid valve stenosis. In both, exploratory surgery revealed a large cyst within scarred pericardium, narrowing the tricuspid valve. The first patient had generalized constrictive pericarditis. The sec...