Population
1 44-year-old woman with rheumatic heart disease, severe mitral valve stenosis, moderate tricuspid valve…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
12 months
Authors
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Supports consideration of emergent surgery in acute mechanical valve thrombosis; leaves open comparative effectiveness versus thrombolysis in larger cohorts.
Emergent surgical replacement can successfully treat early acute thrombosis of a mechanical mitral prosthesis, a rare but life-threatening complication that can occur despite satisfactory anticoagulation.
Jiang et al. (2010) studied this question.
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