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Partial Rupture of the Tricuspid Valve after Extraction of Permanent Pacemaker Leads: Detection by Transesophageal Echocardiography
Author(s) -
ASSAYAG PATRICK,
THUAIRE CHRISTOPHE,
BENAMER HAKIM,
SEBBAH JOEL,
LEPORT CATHERINE,
BROCHET ERIC
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb06828.x
Subject(s) - medicine , regurgitation (circulation) , tricuspid valve , cardiology , tricuspid valve insufficiency , heart failure , etiology , surgery , radiology
Traumatic lesions of the tricuspid valve complicating pacemaker lead extractions appear to be rare. We report two cases of partial rupture of the tricuspid valve, following apparently uneventful extraction of permanent ventricular leads, resulting in severe regurgitation and. in one case, chronic heart failure. TEE was useful to identify the traumatic mechanism of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) and the extent of valvular lesions in these patients. Such etiology should be suspected, and TEE performed, in patients developing TR or heart failure late after lead extraction.