The causes of a tricuspid incompetence:
- functional
- right ventricular failure (RVF)
- rheumatic
- right heart subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
- congenital (Ebstein’s anomaly)
- tricuspid valve prolapse (rare)
- right ventricular papillary muscle dysfunction
- trauma – steering wheel on sternum
Further
Mani Arsalan, Thomas Walther, Robert L. Smith, II, Paul A. Grayburn, Tricuspid regurgitation diagnosis and treatment, European Heart Journal, Volume 38, Issue 9, 1 March 2017, Pages 634–638, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehv487
