Acute thrombosis of mechanical mitral valve prosthesis: echo-Doppler diagnosis and successful treatment with systemic thrombolysis.

Badano, L P

Acute thrombosis of mechanical mitral valve prosthesis: echo-Doppler diagnosis and successful treatment with systemic thrombolysis. [electronic resource] - European journal of echocardiography : the journal of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology Mar 2003 - 73-5 p. digital

Publication Type: Case Reports; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

1525-2167

10.1053/euje.2002.0614 doi


Acute Disease
Aged
Echocardiography--methods
Fatal Outcome
Fibrinolytic Agents--therapeutic use
Heart Valve Prosthesis
Humans
Male
Mitral Valve--diagnostic imaging
Prosthesis Failure
Thrombolytic Therapy
Thrombosis--diagnostic imaging
Tissue Plasminogen Activator--therapeutic use