Pacemaker leads may impair tricuspid valve coaptation and they are a well-known cause of mild tricuspid regurgitation. Occasionally, right ventricular leads worsen tricuspid regurgitation over time and patients develop late-onset symptoms of right-sided heart failure. The exact mechanism of this clinical entity is rarely identifiable by 2D-echocardiography only. This case report details a patient with severe tricuspid regurgitation secondary to immobilization of the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve by a permanent ventricular pacing lead. The mechanism of regurgitation was clarified by real time three-dimensional echocardiography that showed the location of the ventricular lead and its interference with the tricuspid valve.
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J Invasive Cardiol
January 2025
Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China; Cardiac Medical Unit, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
J Soc Cardiovasc Angiogr Interv
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Gore & Associates, Newark, Delaware.
Am J Cardiol
January 2025
Research group Cardiovascular Diseases, Department GENCOR, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Cardiology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium. Electronic address:
Atrial functional mitral regurgitation (AFMR) is a distinct form of MR in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Its pathophysiology remains elusive, and data on exercise-related AFMR are scarce. We sought to investigate the impact of acute exercise on AFMR severity and to identify its determinants.
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Cardiology Department, University Hospital Reina Sofia, Córdoba, Spain.
Background: Four scores have been published in 2022 for assessing mortality risk of patients with tricuspid regurgitation (TR): the TRI-SCORE, those reported by Hochstadt and Wang and the TRIO score. Our objective was to perform an external validation of available scores for predicting mortality and the combined endpoint of mortality and heart failure (HF) admission, in an independent cohort of patients with severe TR and to compare their discriminative ability.
Methods: Discriminative ability of the scores for predicting events was assessed by means of receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves.
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Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Langenbeckstr. 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
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