title: Late complications of prosthetic heart valves.
abstract: Iatrogenic lesions induced during prosthesis insertion are likely to be encountered by a pathologist examining a patient who died of late complications of heart-valve prosthesis. The lesions are classified as those that may occur in any patient who has had a heart-valve prosthesis inserted, including the iatrogenic type and those that are uniquely associated with a particular prosthesis because of its structure or design.
mesh_terms: D003645:Death, Sudden; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology; D013997:Time Factors