Tricuspid insufficiency or tricuspid regurgitation or tricuspid incompetence is a common incidental echocardiographic finding and is readily detected using color-flow Doppler imaging.
In adolescents and young adults, most cases of tricuspid insufficiency are the result of congenital cardiac abnormalities.
In patients with rheumatic heart disease tricuspid insufficiency rarely occurs alone; it is usually associated with mitral or aortic valve disease.
The symptoms of tricuspid insufficiency are those of right-sided heart failure and include ascites, edema an occasionally right upper quadrant pain.
What is tricuspid insufficiency?
