[Acute dysfunction of mitral bioprosthesis: Doppler expression of a musical holosystolic murmur. Apropos of 2 cases].
Two women who had been fitted with a porcine mitral valve seven years previously suddenly developed acute dysfunction of the bioprosthesis with regurgitation. In both patients physical examination revealed an intense, vibrating, musical holosystolic murmur sounding like a "goose cry" and located at the apex. Pulsed doppler showed major, jet-like, central orothetic mitral regurgitation. A harmonic graph was recorded when the doppler window was positioned upstream of the porcine valve leaflets. The finding of such a doppler signal in this clinical context suggests tearing or perforation of one cuspid and rules out the possibility of bioprosthesis degeneration.
Metz
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Service de cardiologie, hôpital Robert-Debré, Reims.
Laudinat
J M
JM
Chapoutot
L
L
Taupin
J M
JM
Chabert
J P
JP
Pollet
E
E
Bajolet
A
A
D000368:Aged; D001705:Bioprosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006326:Heart Auscultation; D006337:Heart Murmurs; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve; D011475:Prosthesis Failure
Dysfonctionnement aigu de bioprothèse mitrale: traduction doppler d'un souffle musical holosystolique. A propos de 2 observations.