Three patients with normal hearts and no pulmonary abnormality had neonatal tricuspid regurgitation causing cardiorespiratory distress and cyanosis. The signs of tricuspid regurgitation resolved over a few weeks. In the acute phase echocardiography showed gross dilatation of the right atrium and ventricle. The interatrial septum bulged into the left atrium during the whole cardiac cycle. Dopple...

Staphylococcal endocarditis in a drug addict was controlled only after excision of the tricuspid valve. Total absence of the tricuspid valve was tolerated well for 18 months, at which time deteriorating liver function prompted the insertion of a bioprosthetic valve into the tricuspid ring. The haemodynamic and clinical results after two years of follow-up have been excellent.

Advancement in imaging techniques and interventional cardiology procedures have generated renewed interest in anatomy of tricuspid valve complex. The purpose of the present study was to characterize the morphology of tricuspid valve leaflets using objective criteria. Thirty-six embalmed cadaveric hearts were utilized for the present study. Leaflet morphology was studied using newly defined crit...

The patterns of aortic and tricuspid valve motion in 50 patients with mitral valve prolapse were analyzed by wide-angle, phased-array, two-dimensional echocardiography. Twelve patients (24%) had redundant aortic leaflets bulging into the left ventricular outflow tract during diastole. Eight of 12 patients had aortic regurgitation and seven of 12 had M-mode echocardiographic evidence of aortic v...

BACKGROUND Patients who undergo tricuspid annuloplasty during left-side heart valve surgery have a poor postoperative clinical outcome. However, preoperative right ventricular (RV) echocardiography parameters that predict adverse events in these patients are poorly understood. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 74 patients (age, 58±10 years; men, 27%) with significant tricuspid regurgitation who ...

BACKGROUND Moderate secondary tricuspid incompetence has variable natural history if left unattended during mitral valve surgery. Recent data suggest progression of the secondary tricuspid incompetence over time.Secondary moderate tricuspid regurgitation in rheumatic mitral valve disease may regress after mitral valve surgery without direct intervention. OBJECTIVES The present study was done ...

Quadrangular resection is the gold standard technique for correction of the posterior leaflet prolapse in mitral valve disease. Prompted by the idea that the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve corresponds to the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve in its structure and function, we conducted a quadrangular resection of the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve in a case of tricuspid end...

Objective: To define the entity of tricuspid regurgitation caused by tethering of the tricuspid valve leaflets by aberrant tendinous chords. Design: Retrospective study. Setting: Tertiary care centre (university teaching hospital). Patients: 10 patients with unexplained severe tricuspid regurgitation. Methods: The last 13 500 echocardiographic studies from our facility were reviewed to identify...

A 26-year-old man was admitted for follow-up after VSD closure without any symptoms. Echocardiography showed a mobile mass of the tricuspid valve (Fig. 1). The peduncu-lated ball-shaped mass was attached to the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve (Fig. 2). Histopathological examination revealed an organized thrombus without any tumor components. Fig. 1. Preoperative transthoracic echocardio...

a common complication of prosthetic heart valves is thrombosis. although the incidence of prosthetic valve thrombosis (pvt) in the tricuspid position is high, there are not enough data on the management of it, in contrast to left-sided pvt. here, we describe three cases of tricuspid pvt with three different management approaches: thrombolytic therapy; close observation with oral anticoagulants;...