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Fibrinolytic treatment successfully resolved acute aortic prosthetic valve thrombosis in an elderly female patient.
Fibrinolytic treatment can be successfully used to treat aortic prosthetic valve thrombosis in elderly patients.
May support fibrinolytic use in select elderly aortic prosthetic valve thrombosis; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Thrombosis of mechanical heart valve prosthesis is a rare fatal complication after heart valve replacement. This report describes an old female patient with aortic prosthetic valve thrombosis who had a successful fibrinolytic treatment.
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Kaya et al. (2008) studied this question. Fibrinolytic treatment successfully resolved acute aortic prosthetic valve thrombosis in an elderly female patient.
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