Highlights a rare complication of poppet dislodgment in an aortic Starr-Edwards prosthesis.
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Alerts clinicians to rare poppet dislodgment in symptomatic Starr-Edwards patients; leaves open incidence and management questions.
Ball-valve intermittent poppet dislodgment into the left ventricle is a rare complication, having been reported previously only in patients with the Braunwald-Cutter prosthesis. This type of variance is reported in a patient with an aortic Starr-Edwards prosthesis and minimal symptoms.
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Schrader et al. (1988) studied this question.
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