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Mitral valve replacement in a heart transplant recipient with iatrogenic mitral regurgitation
M A Cavero1, L A Pulpón, J A Rubio
1Department of Cardiology, Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
A 65-year-old cardiac transplant recipient suffered rupture of the mitral valve apparatus during endomyocardial biopsy of the left ventricle. Severe mitral regurgitation resulted, and because of heart failure with progressive clinical deterioration the patient was finally subjected to mitral valve replacement. He had a favorable postoperative course and is now asymptomatic.