Exercise testing induces fatal thromboembolism from mechanical mitral valve
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2002
Yazarlar: Oğuz YAVUZGİL, Filiz ÖZERKAN ÇAKAN, Cemil GÜRGÜN, Mehdi ZOGHİ, Levent Hürkan CAN, MUSTAFA AKIN
TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE JOURNAL, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, 2002, cilt 29, ss 48-50
Özet
Thromboembolism is still one of the most important complications of prosthetic heart valves. Embolism to a major coronary branch is rare, but acute proximal occlusions can be fatal, even when the coronary arteries are otherwise normal and intervention is rapid. We report a fatal complication of an exercise test in a patient who had a St. Jude bileaflet mitral valve.