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Triscuspid annular dilatation causing severe valvular incompetence and associated with dystrophic calcification of
1Helen Joseph Hospital and Department of Cardiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Abstract:
We report on a case of severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) in a young patient with no history of chest trauma and with an anatomically normal tricuspid valve (TV) apparatus and a dilated TV annulus associated with dystrophic calcification of the left ventricular myocardium. The possibility of congenital pathology as well as the possibility of this being a limited inflammatory or restrictive myocardial disease is discussed.