Population
Patients undergoing mechanical heart valve implantation
Design
Review
Authors
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Supports lifelong monitoring after mechanical valve implantation; leaves open optimization of antithrombotic strategies in modern cohorts.
Mechanical heart valve implantation is associated with a 0.7-3.5% per patient-year rate of valve-related complications, necessitating life-long follow-up and careful anticoagulant management.
Yoshio Misawa (2014) studied this question.
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