Symptomatic Severe Tricuspid Insufficiency as a Late Complication of Pulmonary Balloon Valvuloplasty

Abstract

The authors describe an unusual case of a young adult patient with symptomatic tricuspid valve insufficiency as a late consequence of pulmonary valve ballon dilatation in childhood. Patient was successfully treated by tricuspid valve repair with neo-chordae implantation and a ring plasty.

Two years after the operation the patient, an active spoortsman, is asymptomatic with trace tricuspie regurgitation on the echo examination.

Keywords

• Tricuspid valve insufficiency
• pulmonary balloon valvuloplasty
• tricuspid valve repair