A Rare Case of Rheumatic Heart Disease with Stenosis and Incompetence of Three Valves in a Nigerian Woman.

BACKGROUND

Though valve disease resulting from rheumatic heart disease is common, triple valve involvement is uncommon; with a bleak survival outlook

Objective

To report a 38-year-old patient with both stenosis and incompetence of 3 valves, who lived till adulthood and went into heart failure after child-birth. No such report has come from Nigeria

Methods

Case report of a Nigerian woman who lived with multiple valve disease up to adulthood when after delivery she developed hypertension and went into heart failure. Recurrent atrial fibrillation kept her in and out of heart failure. Three of her valves: mitral, aortic and tricuspid were both stenosed and incompetent. The consequent pulmonary hypertension and later development of arterial hypertension and atrial fibrillation worsened her morbidity till surgical intervention.

CONCLUSION

Mixed triple valve disease of rheumatic origin tough rare, can occur; and is amenable to specialist surgical intervention.