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Therapeutic misadventure during cardiac valve replacement can result in patterned myocardial injury identifiable on postmortem examination.
Case Report (n=1)
Therapeutic misadventure during valve replacement surgery can cause patterned myocardial injury identifiable on postmortem examination.
Patterned injury may flag surgical misadventure in valve autopsies; leaves open diagnostic criteria and prevalence.
The commonly referenced mortality of cardiac valve replacement surgery is 2 to 5%. Some of this mortality is due to therapeutic misadventure during the procedure. Therapeutic misadventure during cardiac valve replacement may result in patterned injury of the heart, so that postmortem examination can establish the nature of the surgical injury. A case of patterned myocardial injury during valve replacement surgery is presented, with a review of literature and associated cases.
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Hawley et al. (1988) conducted a case report in Cardiac valve replacement surgery (n=1). Cardiac valve replacement surgery was evaluated on Patterned myocardial injury. Therapeutic misadventure during cardiac valve replacement can result in patterned myocardial injury identifiable on postmortem examination.
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