RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Caring for patients with prosthetic heart valves
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 75
OP 87
VO 69
IS 1
A2 Griffin, Brian P.
A1 Bettadapur, Monica S.
A1 Asher, Craig R.
YR 2002
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/69/1/75.abstract
AB Patients with prosthetic heart valves require regular examinations and echocardiograms, antithrombotic therapy, and appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis against endocarditis. Physicians must also be on the alert for several uncommon but potentially devastating complications: valve structural failure, thrombosis, embolism, endocarditis, paravalvular leak, and hemolytic anemia.