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Hemolytic anemia secondary to a porcine mitral prosthetic valve leaflet dissection
M R Brown1, N W Hasaniya, C R Dang
1Department of Surgery, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu 96813, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
This is a case of a dissecting cusp of a mitral porcine xenograft causing severe hemolytic anemia in the absence of valvular dysfunction and regurgitation. Six months after valve replacement, the patient had no evidence of hemolytic anemia. A cuspal dissection between the atrial and ventricular membranes was found on histologic evaluation.