Complementary role of different imaging modalities in the diagnosis of concurrent obstructive aortic and mitral prosthetic valve thrombosis

• Auteurs principaux: Ahmet Güner (Auteur), Mehmet Aytürk (Auteur), Semih Kalkan (Auteur), Abdülkadir Uslu (Auteur), Mehmet Özkan (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: KARE Publishing, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) is a life-threatening valve dysfunction. In asymptomatic cases, as well as certain symptomatic patients with PVT, the results of the first-line imaging tool, transthoracic echocardiography, may be inconclusive in terms of illustrating the thrombus, which is necessar...