Imaging of the mechanical heart valve pannus formation with multidetector computerised tomography.
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Fig. 1. Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography revealing severe obstruction of themechanical valve (A). The cause of obstruction could not be visualised by trans-oesophageal echocardiography (B). Multiplanar reformatted images on contrast-enhanced 64-slice multidetector CT clearly depict a circular mass (arrows) with high HU values involving both atrial (C) and ventricular (D) sides of mechanical mitral valve suggestive of pannus formation. HU: Hounsfield
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
دوره 37 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010