Paraprosthetic leak unmasked by combined enoxaparin/warfarin therapy for thrombosed mitral valve

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1105-1106

  Barbetseas, John ^a   Tsiachris, Dimitris ^a,b   Chrysohoou, Christina ^a   Brilli, Stella ^a   Bonou, Maria ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Prosthetic valve; Thrombus; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOLEAK; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANTICOAGULANTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENOXAPARIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARFARIN;

EID: 70349971852     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.00989.x     Document Type: Article

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