Longstanding traumatic tricuspid regurgitation with severe right ventricular failure.

A very unusual case of traumatic tricuspid regurgitation is reported, with severe symptoms of right ventricular failure, extreme dilatation of the right heart, echocardiographic and angiographic criteria of major tricuspid regurgitation, and severe right ventricular systolic dysfunction. The patient was referred for heart transplantation, on the assumption that conventional surgery was not possible. After careful evaluation, as the patient had normal pulmonary artery pressure and resistance, a tricuspid valve was replaced with good surgical outcome.