December 17, 2009European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
Diagnosis of the prosthetic heart valve pannus formation with real-time three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography
Why the study?
Does real-time 3D-TEE improve visualization of pannus overgrowth in patients with mechanical mitral prosthetic heart valve obstruction?
Population
A patient with mechanical mitral prosthetic heart valve obstruction (PHVO) and suspected pannus formation
Design
Case_report
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Discussion
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Implication
May inform imaging selection in mechanical mitral PHVO; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before wider use.
Structured PICO
Does real-time 3D-TEE improve visualization of pannus overgrowth in patients with mechanical mitral prosthetic heart valve obstruction?
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Population
A patient with mechanical mitral prosthetic heart valve obstruction (PHVO) and suspected pannus formation
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Intervention
Real-time three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (3D-TEE)
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Outcome
Visualization of pannus overgrowthsurrogate
Real-time 3D-TEE may be a valuable imaging technique for clearly visualizing pannus formation in patients with prosthetic heart valve obstruction, guiding appropriate therapy.
Cite This Study
Özkan et al. (2009) studied this question.