St. Jude prosthetic valve obstruction in the mitral position
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Katsuhiko Matsuyama, MD · Tomohiro Nakayama, MD Hiroaki Hagiwara, MD
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
We report a surgical case of prosthetic valve obstruction after mitral valve replacement by a St. Jude Medical valve. A 66-year-old woman was admitted because of congestive heart failure. Prosthetic valve obstruction was diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography and cine-fl uoroscopy. Re-do cardiac surgery was indicated after a week of heparinization. Circumferential pannus formation into the orifi ce beyond the pivot guard of the prosthesis on the atrial side and one piece of the leafl et was covered with a fi brous overgrowth on the atrial side. We concluded that once the diagnosis of valve thrombosis is established, urgent operation is preferred in patients with hemodynamic instability before the development of cardiogenic shock or multiple organ failure
Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2011) 59:350–353 DOI 10.1007/s11748-010-0693-9 Received: 15 March 2010 / Accepted: 16 August 2010
