Highlights the presentation of symptomatic hemolytic anemia due to mitral paravalvular leak after transcatheter mitral valve-in-ring.
An 86-year-old man who had undergone recent transcatheter mitral valve-in-ring at an outside hospital presented with multiple hospitalizations for symptomatic hemolytic anemia requiring blood transfusions. Transesophageal echocardiogram demonstrated mitral paravalvular leak originating laterally between the transcatheter valve and surgical ring.
Atienza et al. (Wed,) studied this question.