A rare case of congenital heart disease

ABSTRACT

Congenital anomalies of the heart are now attracting the attention of the pediatrician, cardiologist,heart surgeon and pathologist alike. Various reports have been published concerning congenital anomalies of the heart and great vessels (1-8, 11-13, 15-19). Recently, we encountered a rare type of congenital heart anomaly which involved the chordae tendinae and papillary muscles in both ventricles and the tricuspid valve. A review of the literature available to us yielded only a report by Luch (10) of 2 deaths with congenital malformation of the tricuspid valve. (Author)