TY - JOUR
T1 - Intermittent poppet dislodgment in a braunwald-cutter prosthesis
T2 - Noninvasive diagnosis and successful surgical treatment
AU - Yakirevich, Vladimir
AU - Miller, Hylton I.
AU - Shapira, Itzhak
AU - Ostzjega, Enrico
AU - Gueron, Moshe
AU - Vanderman, Aryeh Y.
AU - Vidne, Bernardo
PY - 1984
Y1 - 1984
N2 - A 65 year old patient had his mitral and aortic valves replaced with two Braunwald-Cutter prostheses in 1973. Seven years later, he presented with intermittent aortic insufficiency demonstrated by echocardiography, fluoroscopy and angiography. At emergency surgery, the occluders (poppets) of both prostheses were found within the left ventricular cavity. The valves were excised and replaced with Björk-Shiley prostheses and the patient recovered. Aortic occluder escape is rare and usually fatal. Mitral occluder escape of the Braunwald-Cutter prosthesis has not been described previously.
AB - A 65 year old patient had his mitral and aortic valves replaced with two Braunwald-Cutter prostheses in 1973. Seven years later, he presented with intermittent aortic insufficiency demonstrated by echocardiography, fluoroscopy and angiography. At emergency surgery, the occluders (poppets) of both prostheses were found within the left ventricular cavity. The valves were excised and replaced with Björk-Shiley prostheses and the patient recovered. Aortic occluder escape is rare and usually fatal. Mitral occluder escape of the Braunwald-Cutter prosthesis has not been described previously.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0735-1097(84)80033-9
DO - 10.1016/S0735-1097(84)80033-9
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AN - SCOPUS:0021341294
SN - 0735-1097
VL - 3
SP - 442
EP - 446
JO - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
JF - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
IS - 2
ER -