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Perivalvular pannus and valve thrombosis: Two concurrent mechanisms of mechanical valve prosthesis dysfunction
- Source :
- Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (English Edition), Vol 34, Iss 2, Pp 141.e1-141.e3 (2015), Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, Vol 34, Iss 2, Pp 141.e1-141.e3 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- A 78-year-old woman was admitted to our institution with progressive dyspnea. She had previously been diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease and had undergone cardiac surgery for mechanical mitral valve replacement ten years previously. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed blockage of the mechanical prosthesis and the patient was scheduled for surgery, in which a thrombus was removed from the left atrial appendage. A partial thrombosis of the mechanical prosthesis and circumferential pannus overgrowth were concomitantly detected. Prosthetic heart valve blockage is a rare but life-threatening complication, the main causes of which are thrombosis and pannus formation. The two conditions are different but both are usually misdiagnosed. Two concurrent mechanisms of prosthesis blockage were found in this patient. Resumo: Uma mulher de 78 anos de idade, foi admitida na nossa instituição com dispneia progressiva. Foi-lhe previamente diagnosticada doença reumática, tendo sido submetida a cirurgia cardíaca de substituição de válvula mitral por prótese mecânica há dez anos. O ecocardiograma transesofágico revelou um bloqueio da prótese mecânica. A paciente foi referida para a cirurgia, tendo sido removido um trombo do apêndice atrial esquerdo. A trombose parcial de prótese mecânica e o crescimento circunferencial de pannus ocorreram concomitantemente. O bloqueio das válvulas cardíacas protésicas é uma complicação rara mas potencialmente fatal. As principais causas são a trombose ou formação de pannus. As duas condições são diferentes, mas em regra erradamente diagnosticadas. Nesta paciente foi detetado um duplo mecanismo de bloqueio de prótese. Keywords: Mitral, Prosthesis, Thrombosis, Pannus, Mechanical valve dysfunction, Palavras-chave: Mitral, Prótese, Trombose, Pannus, Disfunção valvar mecânica
- Subjects :
- lcsh:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
medicine.medical_specialty
Heart disease
medicine.medical_treatment
Heart Valve Diseases
Pannus
Prosthesis
Pannus Formation
Mechanical Mitral Valve
Internal medicine
Humans
Medicine
Thrombus
Aged
General Environmental Science
business.industry
Thrombosis
medicine.disease
Fibrosis
Prosthesis Failure
Surgery
Cardiac surgery
lcsh:RC666-701
Heart Valve Prosthesis
Cardiology
Mitral Valve
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Female
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08702551
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....113b91feff11dbe9d92de5138ce84254
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.repc.2014.08.024