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Prosthetic valve visualization by cine-computed tomography: a case report
J D Wachspress1, W J Untereker, B T Kraushaar
1Cardiovascular Section, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia 19107.
Heart and Vessels
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
The use of cine-computed tomography scanning is described in evaluating cardiac function in a patient with a bileaflet mitral valve prosthesis (St. Jude medical valve) and in a second patient with both mitral and aortic bileaflet prostheses. Both biventricular and prosthesis function were assessed successfully.