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Caring for patients with prosthetic heart valves
Monica S Bettadapur1, Brian P Griffin, Craig R Asher
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA.
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|January 29, 2002
Abstract:
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.