Thrombus attached to suture materials successfully thrombolysed with low-dose tissue plasminogen activator

Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi

Ozan Mustafa Gürsoy¹  Macit Kalçık¹  Mehmet Özkan¹  Süleyman Karakoyun¹ 

[1] Department of Cardiology, Kartal Koşuyolu Heart Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul;

关键词: echocardiography;    three-dimensional/methods;    echocardiography;    transesophageal;    heart valve prosthesis;    sutures;   

DOI  :  10.5543/tkda.2014.28227

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Mechanical prosthetic heart valve thrombosis is one of the most common complications of valve surgery. We herein describe an unusual clinical vignette. A 60-yearold man who underwent prosthetic mitral valve reoperation suffered from nonobstructive thrombus attached to the elongated suture materials in the postoperative sixth month. The thrombus was precisely depicted by two- and three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and was successfully lysed with low-dose slow infusion of tissue plasminogen activator after failed heparin treatment.

【 授权许可】

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