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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-7-25
pubmed:abstractText
The case of a 36 year old woman with a calcified tumour of the tricuspid valve is reported. The clinical signs suggested tricuspid stenosis with a right to left shunt via a patent foramen ovale simulating a cyanotic heart lesion. Preoperative diagnostic investigations were discordant. Echocardiography showed a stenotic tumoural tricuspid valve. Catheterisation and selective right ventriculography were more suggestive of dominant tricuspid incompetence. The patient was referred for surgery because of the severity of her shortness of breath and cyanosis, and tumoral involvement of the three tricuspid leaflets was found. This was removed and replaced by a bioprosthesis with good results 27 months after surgery. 17 other cases of tricuspid tumours have been previously reported. Their clinical presentation was usually that of a right ventricular tumour with stenosis of the right failure, positional syncope and pericardial effusion in the malignant forms. Signs of tricuspid stenosis with cyanosis and polycythaemia are very rare. The relative diagnostic values of angiography and echocardiography are discussed.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0003-9683
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
78
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
435-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-2-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
[Tumor of the tricuspid valve operated on with success. Apropos of a case simulating cyanotic heart disease].
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract