title: [Echocardiographic changes in tricuspid insufficiency].
abstract: The following echocardiographic changes were found in 42 patients with catheterization data for tricuspid insufficiency: all echocardiographic dimensions of the right ventricle and right auricle are considerably increased; the interventricular septum reveals paradoxical movements in 38 per cent of the cases; the tricuspid echogram shows unspecific changes in the speed and amplitude parameters of the anterior tricuspid cusp--increased speed (D--E) and amplitude (C--E) of opening, increased speed of backward movement in an early diastole (E-F), increased speed of closing (A--C),increased duration of the final diastolic intervals A--C and Q--C, the difference between the Q--C interval duration of the tricuspidal valve and Q--C interval of the mitral echogram is pathologically increased, the ratio between the speed of E--F segment of the tricuspid valve and E--F segment of the mitral valve is also increased. The diagnostic sensitivity of those changes of the tricuspid echogram is about 75 per cent. EchoC-diagnosis of the tricuspid insufficiency is based on the combination of considerably increased EchoC-dimensions of the right ventricle and the right auricle, paradoxical movements of the interventricular septum and the changes of the speed and amplitude parameters of the tricuspid echogram.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000503:physiopathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000503:physiopathology; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000503:physiopathology; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*
vernacular_title: Ekhokardiografski izmeneniia pri trikuspidalna insufitsientsiia.