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Flail Tricuspid Valve in an Adult Patient with Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
Author(s) -
MELONI LUIGI,
ABBRUZZESE PIERO A.,
PIRISI RAIMONDO,
CHERCHI ANGELO
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00690.x
Subject(s) - medicine , great arteries , tricuspid valve , atrioventricular valve , regurgitation (circulation) , cardiology , chordae tendineae , corrected transposition , interventricular septum , ebstein's anomaly , anatomy , surgery , heart disease , mitral valve , ventricle
We describe a case of a 50‐year‐old woman with congenitally corrected transposition of the great vessels, in whom severe left‐sided tricuspid (systemic atrioventricular) valve insufficiency was the only associated anomaly. The tricuspid valve was dysplastic and abnormally oriented toward the interventricular septum, without the downward displacement of Ebstein's anomaly. The mechanism of atrioventricular regurgitation was unusual in that it consisted of the rupture of chordae tendineae of both the anterior and septal leaflets. The left‐sided tricuspid valve was replaced with a St. Jude prosthesis and the postoperative course was uneventful.