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Background: Leaflet escape of prosthetic valve is rare but potentially life threatening.
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Valve thrombosis is one of the most serious complications after prosthetic valve replacement.
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The patient underwent an emergency mitral valve replacement with a SJM29M prosthetic valve.
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Aortic valve replacement was performed successfully with a St. Jude Medical prosthetic valve.
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The indications for re-intervention included prosthetic thromboses, paravalvular leakages and prosthetic valve endocarditis.
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A 49-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with suspected prosthetic valve endocarditis.
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Two-dimensional echocardiography is the diagnostic procedure of choice for evaluation of prosthetic valve abnormalities.
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The incidences of prosthetic valve endocarditis were not different among these kinds of bioprosthetic valves.
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Then the patients were assessed on the suitability for TAVI procedure and prosthetic valve sizes.
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There has been no prosthetic valve dehiscence, except for minimal paraprosthetic leakage in 1 patient.
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A 73-year-old man with two previous mitral valve replacements presented with prosthetic valve infective endocarditis.
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There were few serious complications related to the need for long-term anticoagulation or a prosthetic valve.
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The causes of termination were prosthetic valve endocarditis in one case and cable failure in the other.
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Vegetation on TTE, prosthetic valve, change in regurgitation, and blood cultures were correlated with vegetation on TEE.
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Most of these studies have confirmed the extraordinary sensitivity and specificity of Doppler in detecting prosthetic valve dysfunction.
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Five blood cultures and prosthetic valve cultures grew the same type of organism, initially identified as Micrococcus sp.
