The incidence of blunt injury to the heart is becoming more frequent with the increasing number of automobile accidents. However, traumatic tricuspid insufficiency is less frequently encountered. This report concerns the hemodynamic data and operative treatment of a patient with traumatic rupture of the chordae tendineae to the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve by the Starr Edwards disc valve 7 years and 5 months after the injury. A review of the surgically treated cases suggested that the number of valve repair could be increased when treated at an earlier stage
