[Systolic honk and blood cyst of the tricuspid valve in an infant (author's transl)].
A case of a one month old girl admitted in hospital because of cardiac failure who died at three months of age is described. Her necropsy demonstrated a ventricular septal defect and showed a blood cyst in the tricuspid valve. It might be possible that the "precordial honk" or "whoop" heard during life, the cottony, shaggy pictures recorded in the echocardiogram behind the  anterior tricuspid leaflet in diastole, the tricuspid regurgitation appreciated in the angiocardiography, and the failure of the pulmonary artery banding were related to the blood cyst 4 mm. in diameter attached to the atrial surface of the anterior tricuspid leaflet near the free margin. The microscopic findings of haemosiderin loaded macrophages and calcified deposits in the haemorrhagic cyst speak in favour of its relatively ancient nature, not associated with an asphyxial mode of death.
D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000209:etiology; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006326:Heart Auscultation; D006337:Heart Murmurs; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications*; D006470:Hemorrhage; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010701:Phonocardiography; D011859:Radiography; D014261:Tricuspid Valve
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