Citation

Tedoldi F, Krisper M, Köhncke C, Pieske B. Echo Res Pract 2016; 3(2): K21-4.

Affiliation

F Tedoldi, UOC Cardiologia OCM Borgo Trento, Universita degli Studi di Verona, Verona, ItalyM Krisper, Medizinische Klinik m.S. Kardiologie, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, GermanyC Köhncke, Medizinische Klinik m.S. Kardiologie, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, GermanyB Pieske, Medizinische Klinik m.S. Kardiologie, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016)

DOI

10.1530/ERP-16-0014

PMID

27249554

Abstract

The case enclosed represents a very rare example of chronic right heart failure caused by torrent tricuspid regurgitation. Massive right heart dilatation and severe tricuspid regurgitation due to avulsion of the tricuspid valve apparatus occurred in this patient as a result of a blunt chest trauma following the explosion of a gas bottle 20 years prior to admission, when the patient was a child in Vietnam. After this incident the patient went through a phase of severe illness, that was never researched in depth and can retrospectively be called an acute right heart decompensation. Blunt chest trauma caused by explosives leading to valvular dysfunction has not been reported in the literature so far. It is remarkable, that the patient not only survived this trauma, but was doing well despite chronic right heart dysfunction without medication for over 20 years.

© 2016 The authors.

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