Clinical significance of early thrombosis after prosthetic mitral valve replacement: A postoperative monocentric study of 680 patients

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1283-1290

  Laplace, Guillaume ^a,b   Lafitte, Stéphane ^a   Labèque, Jean Noèl ^a   Perron, Jean Marie ^a   Baudet, Eugène ^a   Deville, Claude ^a   Roques, Xavier ^a   Roudaut, Raymond ^a  

^a HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Service de Cardiologie   (France)

Author keywords

Activated partial thromboplastin time; aPTT; INR; International normalized ratio; Mechanical mitral valve replacement; MMVR; Nonobstructive thrombus; NOT; Obstructive thrombus; OT; SEC; Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast; TEE; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; FLUINDIONE; HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; THROMBOSIS; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1842530291     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2003.09.064     Document Type: Article

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