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Mitral Ball-Valve Prosthesis
REPLACEMENT of nonfunctioning valves is a significant recent advancement in the correction of cardiac valvular disease. The most widely used artificial device replacing the mitral valve is the Starr-Edwards ballvalve prosthesis.' Its effectiveness was shown in recent reports by the marked clinical improvement in properly selected patients.2 However, cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are faced ...
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A 37 year old female patient presented with the clinical picture of pulmonary edema while pregnant (13 weeks). Eight years earlier she underwent mitral valve replacement because of rheumatic mitral incompetence using bileaflet StJude prosthesis. Her oral anticoagulation maintenance therapy (Coumadin) was discontinued by her physician and shifted to subcutaneous unfractionated heparin 10 days pr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(19)33269-6