Persistent cardiac failure after mitral valve replacement due to free-floating intracardiac thrombus formation
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 31 (7) , 661-663
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-6576.1987.tb02641.x
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.Keywords
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