Unusual Cause of Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation

Daniel G. Bamira, MD; Aeshita Dwivedi, MD; Puneet Bhatla, MD; Dan Halpern, MD; Alan F. Vainrib, MD; Eugene Kim, MD; Elias Zias, MD; Muhamed Saric, MD, PhD

JACC: Case Reports (Nov 2020)

Unusual Cause of Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation

Daniel G. Bamira, MD,
Aeshita Dwivedi, MD,
Puneet Bhatla, MD,
Dan Halpern, MD,
Alan F. Vainrib, MD,
Eugene Kim, MD,
Elias Zias, MD,
Muhamed Saric, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Daniel G. Bamira, MD: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York
Aeshita Dwivedi, MD: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York
Puneet Bhatla, MD: Department of Pediatrics, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York
Dan Halpern, MD: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York
Alan F. Vainrib, MD: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York
Eugene Kim, MD: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York
Elias Zias, MD: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York
Muhamed Saric, MD, PhD: Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, New York, New York; Address for correspondence: Dr. Muhamed Saric, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, 560 First Avenue, New York, New York 10016.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 14
pp. 2156 – 2161

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Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is an uncommon and underdiagnosed complication of blunt chest trauma. Typical mechanisms include torn chordae, papillary muscle rupture, and radial leaflet tear. We describe an unusual case of traumatic TR due to circumferential avulsion of the anterior tricuspid leaflet from the tricuspid annulus and the crucial role of multimodality imaging in its diagnosis and treatment. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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