Flail mitral and tricuspid valves due to myxomatous disease

E BILENSENKAYA, Murat Akçay, Mehmet Bilge, Mustafa Kurt, Gökhan İpek

European Journal of Echocardiography · 2006 · 13 citations · 4 references

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Myxomatous disease generally affects mitral valve. However, tricuspid valves also can be involved in 20% of the myxomatous mitral valve disease. Valve prolapse, elongation of chordae and chordae rupture are generally seen complications of the myxomatous disease. There are some reports about severe tricuspid regurgitation due to tricuspid valve prolapse and elongated chordae, but no tricuspid and mitral chordae ruptures in the same patient due to myxomatous disease have been reported. In this case tricuspid chordae rupture accompanied to mitral chordae rupture is discussed.

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