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Occult paravalvular leak in a clinically normal St. Jude's mitral valve presenting with life-threatening
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A case of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia associated with a St. Jude Medical prosthetic paravalvular valve leak, not detected by echocardiography or cardiac angiography and requiring thoracotomy for diagnosis and therapy is described. The importance of considering the presence of a paravalvular leak in a patient with MAHA and a prosthetic valve even with a negative invasive cardiac work-up is discussed.