Letter to Editor

Authors

• Mohammad Abbasi Tashnizi ¹
• Aliasghar Moeinipour ²
• Ahmad Rajaii Khorasani ³
• Atefeh Ghorbanzadeh ⁴
• Nahid Zirak ⁵
• Babak Manaf ⁶

¹ Associated Professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

³ Cardiac Surgeon, Chief of Department of Cardiac Surgery, Razavi Hospital, Mashhad, Iran

⁴ Student Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

⁵ Associated Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

⁶ Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

Abstract

Ebstein’s anomaly is a rare congenital heart defect of the tricuspid valve which accounts for less than 1% of all
the congenital heart diseases (1-3). Ebstein malformation is defined as varying degrees of downward displacement
of the septal or posterior leaflets or both of the tricuspid valves into the inlet portion of the right ventricle (RV).Also,
the anterior leaflet is enlarged and sail-like, but it has a normal position. Thus, the RV is malformed and divided
into a proximal thin-walled (atrialized) and a distal thickwalled (ventricularized) (4, 5). Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) is
the most commonly associated anomaly which presents in 80% to 94% of the cases (3, 6).

Keywords

• Ebstein’s Anomaly
• Valved-Skirt
• Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation