Right ventricular infarction with tricuspid insufficiency and chronic right heart failure.
A patient with chronic right heart failure and probable tricuspid insufficiency associated with an inferior myocardial infartion is described. Angiograms demonstrated total occlusion of the right coronary artery at its origin, a patent venous bypass graft to the mid-right coronary artery and hypokinesia of the inferior wall of both the right and left vebtricles. Clinical data indicated a greater impairment of right than of left ventricular function. It is proposed that infarction of the right ventricle resulted in chronic right heart failure and tricuspid insufficiency.
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*