Intravascular hemolysis is a rare but serious complication that should be considered in patients with unexpected functional impairment after mitral valve repair.
Warrants consideration of hemolysis in unexplained post-repair impairment; leaves open incidence and predictors in larger cohorts.
Hemolysis is a rare, but serious complication of mitral valve repair. It should be considered in every patient with the history of mitral valve repair and who has unexpected impairment in the functional capacity during early or late postoperative period. If the functional impairment is not consisted with the severity of patient residual mitral regurgitation, hemolysis should always be considered. In this article, we present two cases suffering from intravascular hemolysis after mitral valve repair.
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