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European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(1):119-120; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.03.038
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Detection of flail tricuspid valve many years after blunt chest trauma

Okan Gulel1,*, Serdar Demir1 and Mehmet Kamil Gol2

1 Department of Cardiology, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey
2 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey

Received 16 February 2007; accepted after revision 31 March 2007; online publish-ahead-of-print 19 July 2007.

* Corresponding author. Universite Lojmanlari, A-Blok No: 7, 55139 Kurupelit, Samsun, Turkey. Tel: +90 362 4576520; fax: +90 362 4576041. E-mail address: okangulel{at}hotmail.com


  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.

Keywords: Flail tricuspid valve; Blunt chest trauma; Echocardiography


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