Anatom3DTricuspid valve
Valva atrioventricularis dextra (tricuspidalis) · Trojcípá chlopeň
Veins
Looks like
A valve with three thin leaflets between the right atrium and right ventricle.
What it does
Lets blood into the right ventricle and stops it flowing back when the ventricle squeezes.
Keeping it well
It usually leaks because the right heart has stretched, from lung disease or left-heart failure, rather than from its own disease. Swollen ankles, a swollen liver and pulsing neck veins are the signs; the cause is what gets treated.
Its parts
Related conditions
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge)
- Aortic stenosis
- Atrial flutter
- Cardiomyopathy (dilated, restrictive, arrhythmogenic)
- Chagas disease
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Congenital heart defects
- Coronary artery disease
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Diphtheria
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Eating disorders
- Extra heartbeats (ectopics and palpitations)
- Fainting (syncope)
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Heart failure
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Infective endocarditis
- Kawasaki disease
- Long QT syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Myocarditis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Panic disorder
- Pericardial effusion & tamponade
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Valve disease (stenosis & regurgitation)
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome