Persistent cardiac failure after mitral valve replacement due to free-floating intracardiac thrombus formation |
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| Authors: | J Hedenmark MD T W Dubiel J Landelius C Lidell S O Nyström H Tydén |
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| Institution: | Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden. |
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| Abstract: | A case of free-floating left atrial-ventricular thrombus early after mitral valve replacement (Carpentier-Edwards pericardial bioprosthesis) is presented. Successful surgical removal was performed. The diagnostic and therapeutic efforts are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Anesthesia cardiac surgery mitral valve replacement thrombosis |
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