Video 26.19 Imaging the mechanical tricuspid valve in a 24-year-old woman at 12 weeks of pregnancy
Imaging the mechanical tricuspid valve in a 24-year-old woman at 12 weeks of pregnancy. Apical 4-chamber view shows eccentric hypertrophy of the left-sided subaortic right ventricle (RV) (L-ventricular loop) with reduced systolic function; only one disk of the CarboMedics mechanical tricuspid valve appears to move in the setting of an increased diastolic gradient across the valve. There is a pacemaker lead in the right-sided subpulmonic LV.