Significados de prosthetic valve en inglés

Background: Leaflet escape of prosthetic valve is rare but potentially life threatening.

Valve thrombosis is one of the most serious complications after prosthetic valve replacement.

The patient underwent an emergency mitral valve replacement with a SJM29M prosthetic valve.

Aortic valve replacement was performed successfully with a St. Jude Medical prosthetic valve.

The indications for re-intervention included prosthetic thromboses, paravalvular leakages and prosthetic valve endocarditis.

A 49-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with suspected prosthetic valve endocarditis.

Two-dimensional echocardiography is the diagnostic procedure of choice for evaluation of prosthetic valve abnormalities.

The incidences of prosthetic valve endocarditis were not different among these kinds of bioprosthetic valves.

Then the patients were assessed on the suitability for TAVI procedure and prosthetic valve sizes.

There has been no prosthetic valve dehiscence, except for minimal paraprosthetic leakage in 1 patient.

A 73-year-old man with two previous mitral valve replacements presented with prosthetic valve infective endocarditis.

There were few serious complications related to the need for long-term anticoagulation or a prosthetic valve.

The causes of termination were prosthetic valve endocarditis in one case and cable failure in the other.

Vegetation on TTE, prosthetic valve, change in regurgitation, and blood cultures were correlated with vegetation on TEE.

Most of these studies have confirmed the extraordinary sensitivity and specificity of Doppler in detecting prosthetic valve dysfunction.

Five blood cultures and prosthetic valve cultures grew the same type of organism, initially identified as Micrococcus sp.