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Ann Thorac Surg 1995;59:740-742
© 1995 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Repair of traumatic tricuspid valve insufficiency by trabecular muscle elevation

MD, PhD Jacques A.M. van Son*, MD Albert Starr

Albert Starr Academic Center for Cardiac Surgery, St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA

Accepted for publication July 20, 1994.

* Address reprint requests to Dr van Son, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCSF, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143-0118.

A technique is described for repair of traumatic tricuspid valve insufficiency; it was applied successfully in a young adult with a flail anterior leaflet due to chordal rupture. The technique consists of resuspension of the flail leaflet with autogenous trabecular muscle bundles and additional annuloplasty.




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