Experiences with 1643 Porcine Prosthetic Valves in 1492 Patients

Pregnancy in patients with prosthetic heart valves.

Pregnancy and delivery were analyzed in 23 women one to ten years after undergoing prosthetic heart valve replacement. The main points of management during pregnancy and delivery were cardiac management and management against thromboembolism. The functional status of the pregnant patients was grade I of the New York Heart Association criteria in eight, grade II in 13 and grade III and higher in...

Pregnancy Outcome with Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Method in a Woman with Prosthetic Heart Valves

There is an increased risk of thromboembolism, anticoagulant-related hemorrhage, fetal-wastage and congestive cardiac failure in pregnant women with mechanical heart valves. In order to have a good outcome, the care of such patients must necessarily be multidisciplinary and in a well- equipped centre with adequate support services .One such patient who had mechanical mitral and aortic valves re...

New murmurs in patients with prosthetic heart valves.

Altered Platelet Function in Patients with Prosthetic Mitral Valves

Platelet survival time and platelet adhesiveness and aggregation were examined in 16 patients with prosthetic mitral valves. Subsequently, nine patients were treated with sulfinpyrazone in doses of 400 mg and 800 mg/day, and the studies were repeated after a treatment period of 5 to 8 weeks. 51Chromium survival time was shortened in 15 of 16 patients, and the mean value for the entire group was...

Renal hemosiderosis in patients with prosthetic aortic valves.

DURING recent years, considerable effort has been directed to the development of effective operative methods for the correction of stenotic and regurgitant malformations of the aortic valve. Initially, reconstructive procedures on the valve were performed, but the results of these operations were generally unsatisfactory. Prosthetic valves were then utilized, and the first ones to gain wide acc...