Citation

Karaca O, Demir G, Özyüksel A, Akçevin A. Turk. Kardiyol. Dern. Ars. 2016; 44(4): 329-331.

Affiliation

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medipol University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

27372618

Abstract

Cardiac valve injury, a condition that can follow blunt thoracic trauma, has a wide range of clinical presentations, depending on the structures involved. Post-traumatic tricuspid regurgitation is relatively rare, caused by increase in intrathoracic pressure when the tricuspid valve leaflets close, leading to rupture of the chordae tendineae. A case of severe tricuspid regurgitation due to chordal rupture presenting with atrial flutter following a motorbike accident is described in the present report.

Language: en