- Section 1 Basic instrumentation and modalities
- Section 2 Cardiac morphology, haemodynamics, and physiology
- Section 3 Echocardiographic assessment of disease
- Chapter 25 Heart failure: left ventricular systolic dysfunction
- Chapter 26 Heart failure: left ventricular dyssynchrony
- Chapter 27 Heart failure: risk stratification and follow-up
- Chapter 28 Heart failure: preserved left ventricular ejection fraction
- Chapter 29 Ischaemic heart disease: acute coronary syndrome
- Chapter 30 Ischaemic heart disease: coronary artery anomalies
- Chapter 31 Heart valve disease (aortic valve disease): anatomy and pathology of the aortic valve
- Chapter 32 Heart valve disease (aortic valve disease): aortic stenosis
- Chapter 33 Heart valve disease (aortic valve disease): aortic regurgitation
- Chapter 34 Heart valve disease (mitral valve disease): anatomy and morphology of the mitral valve
- Chapter 35 Heart valve disease (mitral valve disease): mitral stenosis
- Chapter 36 Heart valve disease (mitral valve disease): mitral regurgitation
- Chapter 37 Heart valve disease: tricuspid valve disease
- Chapter 38 Heart valve disease: pulmonary valve disease
- Chapter 39 Heart valve disease: mixed valve disease, multiple valve disease, and others
- Chapter 40 Replacement heart valves
- Chapter 41 Endocarditis
- Chapter 42 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Chapter 43 Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Chapter 44 Restrictive cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
- Chapter 45 Isolated ventricular non-compaction
- Chapter 46 Takotsubo syndrome
- Chapter 47 Familial cardiomyopathies
- Chapter 48 Right ventricular dilatation and function
- Chapter 49 Pericardial disease
- Section 4 Echocardiographic assessment of disease
- Section 5 Specific clinical context/environment
- Section 6 Miscellaneous topics
(p. 299) Heart valve disease: tricuspid valve disease
- Chapter:
- (p. 299) Heart valve disease: tricuspid valve disease
- Author(s):
Denisa Muraru
, Ashraf M. Anwar
, and Jae-Kwan Song
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780198726012.003.0037
The tricuspid valve is currently the subject of much interest from echocardiographers and surgeons. Functional tricuspid regurgitation is the most frequent aetiology of tricuspid valve pathology, is characterized by structurally normal leaflets, and is due to annular dilation and/or leaflet tethering. A primary cause of tricuspid regurgitation with/without stenosis can be identified only in a minority of cases. Echocardiography is the imaging modality of choice for assessing tricuspid valve diseases. It enables the cause to be identified, assesses the severity of valve dysfunction, monitors the right heart remodelling and haemodynamics, and helps decide the timing for surgery. The severity assessment requires the integration of multiple qualitative and quantitative parameters. The recent insights from three-dimensional echocardiography have greatly increased our understanding about the tricuspid valve and its peculiarities with respect to the mitral valve, showing promise to solve many of the current problems of conventional two-dimensional imaging. This chapter provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art assessment of tricuspid valve pathology by echocardiography, including the specific indications, strengths, and limitations of each method for diagnosis and therapeutic planning.
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- Section 1 Basic instrumentation and modalities
- Section 2 Cardiac morphology, haemodynamics, and physiology
- Section 3 Echocardiographic assessment of disease
- Chapter 25 Heart failure: left ventricular systolic dysfunction
- Chapter 26 Heart failure: left ventricular dyssynchrony
- Chapter 27 Heart failure: risk stratification and follow-up
- Chapter 28 Heart failure: preserved left ventricular ejection fraction
- Chapter 29 Ischaemic heart disease: acute coronary syndrome
- Chapter 30 Ischaemic heart disease: coronary artery anomalies
- Chapter 31 Heart valve disease (aortic valve disease): anatomy and pathology of the aortic valve
- Chapter 32 Heart valve disease (aortic valve disease): aortic stenosis
- Chapter 33 Heart valve disease (aortic valve disease): aortic regurgitation
- Chapter 34 Heart valve disease (mitral valve disease): anatomy and morphology of the mitral valve
- Chapter 35 Heart valve disease (mitral valve disease): mitral stenosis
- Chapter 36 Heart valve disease (mitral valve disease): mitral regurgitation
- Chapter 37 Heart valve disease: tricuspid valve disease
- Chapter 38 Heart valve disease: pulmonary valve disease
- Chapter 39 Heart valve disease: mixed valve disease, multiple valve disease, and others
- Chapter 40 Replacement heart valves
- Chapter 41 Endocarditis
- Chapter 42 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Chapter 43 Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Chapter 44 Restrictive cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
- Chapter 45 Isolated ventricular non-compaction
- Chapter 46 Takotsubo syndrome
- Chapter 47 Familial cardiomyopathies
- Chapter 48 Right ventricular dilatation and function
- Chapter 49 Pericardial disease
- Section 4 Echocardiographic assessment of disease
- Section 5 Specific clinical context/environment
- Section 6 Miscellaneous topics