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3802606

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-3-5
pubmed:abstractText
A 49-year-old man who had undergone tricuspid valve replacement with a Björk-Shiley prosthesis in November 1974 was reoperated on in January 1985 due to prosthesis malfunction. The operation revealed a totally occluded prosthetic valve and a paravalvular defect which had served as the channel for atrioventricular blood flow. In retrospect, all evidence indicated that the valve had stuck as early as six months after the primary operation, when the patient had first noticed the loss of audible valve clicks and the reappearance of effort intolerance. Due to the gradual progression of the patient's symptoms and misinterpretation of the significance of absent valve clicks, the correct diagnosis was not made until a follow-up study 10 years after the first operation when contrast echocardiography showed the absence of both disc movements and transvalvular contrast flow. Our experience indicates that thrombosis of a tricuspid valve prosthesis may present highly insidiously and that the loss of audible valve clicks should be relied on as a sign of prosthesis malfunction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0160-9289
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
575-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Prolonged survival with a thrombotically occluded tricuspid valve prosthesis.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports