Late Tricuspid Regurgitation as a Result of Rheumatic Tricuspid Disease in a Patient With Prosthetic Mitral Valve. Combined Two-Dimensional and Real-Time Three-Dimensional Transthoracic Echocardiographic Assessment

Authors

  • Constantina Aggeli 1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School
  • Ioannis Felekos 1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School
  • Gerasimos Siasos 1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School
  • Emmanouil Poulidakis 1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School
  • Konstantinos Toutouzas 1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School
  • Christodoulos Stefanadis 1st Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, Athens Medical School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2015/hc.v6i4.422

Keywords:

Tricuspid regurgitation, rheumatic heart disease, real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

Abstract

We herein present the case of a 65-year-old lady with late tricuspid regurgitation 15 years after successful mitral valve replacement due to severe mitral stenosis of rheumatic origin. She presented to our department complaining of fatigue which worsened over the last 6 months. Transthoracic echocardiographic examination including both 2D and real time 3D modalities revealed severe tricuspid regurgitation and the patient was scheduled for tricuspid annuloplasty. A propos with this case, a brief review of the literature is provided highlighting the key points of this topic.

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Published

2011-09-25

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 4 (2011)

Section

CASE REPORTS

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