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Reversible left ventricular function after tricuspid valve replacement for a patient with congenital isolated severe
Ming-Jui Hung1, Li-Tang Kuo, Chao-Hung Wang
1Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|October 3, 2002
Abstract:
We describe the case of a 30-year-old man presenting with congenital, isolated severe tricuspid regurgitation due to posterior leaflet dysfunction. An impaired left ventricular ejection fraction and restrictive filling pattern were noted, recovering after tricuspid valve replacement. The left ventricular dysfunction, reversible in this case, may have been the result of right ventricular volume overload, resulting in ventricular septal paradox.