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European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access originally published online on March 27, 2008
European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(4):413-414; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen113
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Prosthetic valve thrombosis: is it time for a new consensus conference?

Fidel Manuel Cáceres-Loriga

Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Calle 17 # 702, Vedado, CP 10400 Havana, Cuba

Received 30 January 2008; accepted after revision 6 February 2008; online publish-ahead-of-print 27 March 2008.

Corresponding author. Tel: +53 7 836 08 20; fax: +53 7 834 44 35. E-mail address: caceresm@infomed.sld.cu

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After cardiac valve replacement, complications may occur due to structural deterioration of the prosthesis and non-structural dysfunction including infection, embolism, thrombosis, and others.

The prosthetic heart valve thrombosis (PVT) used to be a very serious complication in this type of patients; however, it may be an incidental finding during an echocardiografic test.

Kaya et al.1 report a new case to the medical literature, particularly interesting, because the patient is a 82-year-old woman who was . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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