Cleft on tricuspid anterior leaflet Naotaka Motoyoshi, MD, Motohisa Tofukuji, MD, PhD, Masahiro Sakurai, MD, Mikio Ohmi, MD, Koichi Tabayashi, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 71, Issue 4, Pages 1350-1351 (April 2001) DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)02575-3
Fig 1 Preoperative echocardiogram revealing pure tricuspid regurgitation, unlike Ebstein’s anomaly. (RA = right atrium; RV = right ventricle; TV = tricuspid valve.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2001 71, 1350-1351DOI: (10.1016/S0003-4975(00)02575-3)
Fig 2 A cleft in the tricuspid anterior leaflet is a rare finding. In our patient, the anterior leaflet had a large cleft, which effectively cut the leaflet into two dysfunctional smaller leaflets. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2001 71, 1350-1351DOI: (10.1016/S0003-4975(00)02575-3)