Detection of flail tricuspid valve many years after blunt chest trauma

European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging

19 July 2007
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Abstract

Abstract

Posttraumatic tricuspid insufficiency is a rare clinical entity that is mostly associated with traffic accidents causing nonpenetrating chest wall injury. Here we report a patient with a flail tricuspid valve detected many years after blunt chest trauma at work place.

Contributors

Okan Gulel
Okan Gulel

Author

Ondokuz Mayis University- Faculty of Medicine Samsun , Turkiye