We present a case of tricuspid annulus calcification, documented by fluoroscopy, chest X-ray and cross sectional echocardiography. This case is interesting for two reasons: 1) Tricuspid annulus calcification is extremely rare and very few cases have been reported. 2) It is the third case described where two-dimensional echocardiography established the diagnosis of this very rare condition. Prev...

Copyright: © 2014 Hong T. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. A 57-year-old African American man with a 6-month history of chest pain presented for aortic valve replacement. He had documented sever...

Unguarded tricuspid regurgitation (TR) due to a flail tricuspid leaflet is a rare condition of newborn cyanosis. A high perinatal mortality has been associated with this fatal condition. But, there are feasible surgical repairs to improve survival. We report the case of a male full-term neonate with intractable hypoxia. He had profound tricuspid insufficiency and leaflet prolapse caused by a ru...

Infective endocarditis involving the right side of heart occurs rarely and often involves tricuspid valve. The isolated pulmonary valve infective (IPVIE) is a less common condition that in specific population. double outlet ventricle (DORV) an unusual congenital disease. association DORV IPVIE darkens prognosis. We report two cases IPVIE. transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) base to diagnosis. ...

A 20-year-old sportive male presented with palpitations. Twodimensional transthoracic echocardiography showed a severely dilated right atrium and a dislocated lateral tricuspid valve towards the right ventricular apex (Fig. 1a) with grade II tricuspid regurgitation (Fig. 1b). The 3D delayed enhancement study by cardiac MRI confirmed that the inferolateral leaflet of the tricuspid valve was 2.7 ...

INTRODUCTION Due to late complications associated with the use of conventional prosthetic heart valves, several centers have advocated aortic valve repair and/or valve sparing aortic root replacement for patients with aortic valve insufficiency, in order to enhance late survival and minimize adverse postoperative events. METHODS From March/2012 thru March 2015, 37 patients consecutively under...

In about 80% of the population, a small degree of tricuspid insufficiency occurs and therefore is considered almost physiological [1]. Higher mortality has been described among patients with moderate and severe tricuspid regurgitation compared to patients without it, irrespective of the pulmonary pressure value or systolic function of the left and right ventricle [2–4]. A fourfold increase in t...

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M-mode echocardiographic studies were performed in 11 patients, most of them adults, with Ebstein's anomaly of the tricuspid valve, proven by cardiac catheterisation. Simultaneous recordings of the tricuspid and mitral valves were obtained in all cases, the transducer position being outside the left midclavicular line in seven patients. Tricuspid valve closure followed mitral valve closure in a...