A Forgotten Prosthesis in a Forgotten Valve: A Surprising Case Report

The development of prosthetic heart valves has allowed to drastically improve the quality of life and the life expectancy in patients who would otherwise have succumbed to the inevitable course of the disease.While prosthetic heart valves are invaluable resources in therapy, they are not devoid of possible complications, some inherent to the prosthesis itself (structural damage, thrombosis, etc.), others related to the patient (e.g., thrombophilia, non-adherence to medication).The case of a patient is presented whose findings are surprising and show that there is always an exception to the rule.