Tricuspid Valve Disease

Symptoms

Signs and symptoms of tricuspid valve disease depend on how severely and quickly the damage develops.

Tricuspid regurgitation can result in:

• blood backing up and staying in the atrium, which may lead to high venous pressures causing severe fluid overload in the extremities, abdomen and internal organs.
• less oxygen-depleted blood going to the lungs to pick up oxygen
• enlargement of the right ventricle wall, as it works harder to push blood to the lungs, ultimately resulting in right heart failure.

In both tricuspid regurgitation and tricuspid stenosis, patients may experience pain in the upper right abdomen and the liver may become enlarged. Eventually, tricuspid valve disease can damage the heart muscle and cause irregular heartbeats and possibly heart failure or other complications, including stroke or heart infection.