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Causes of Tricuspid Regurgitation (TR) • Functional—secondary to pulmonary hypertension, cor pulmonale, right heart failure (commonestcause).• Chronic rheumatic heart disease.• Infective endocarditis (commonly involved in drug addicts).• Congenital heart disease…
What is Mitral Valve Prolapse (MPV) It is also called Barlow’s syndrome or floppy mitral valve. In this condition, a mitral valve leaflet, commonlythe posterior leaflet prolapses into the left…
Causes of Mitral Regurgitation • Chronic rheumatic heart disease.• Mitral valve prolapse.• Papillary muscle dysfunction.• Infective endocarditis.• Trauma or mitral valvotomy.• Connective tissue diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, Marfan’s syndrome, Ehler-Danlossyndrome).•…
Definition It is the common primary tumour of heart, usually benign, may be pedunculated, polypoid,gelatinous, attached by a pedicle to the atrial septum. It may be sporadic and familial. It…
Idiotic look, Coarse face with thick lips, Large ears.
The patient looks apathetic The face is puffy with periorbital swelling Baggy eyelids with loss of outer 1/3rd of the eyebrows There may be malar flash