Fatal hypoxemia following mitral valve replacement.
Patency of the foramen ovale is a common condition. In certain clinical settings it permits the development of right-to-left intracardiac shunting. A case is described of sudden, fatal hypoxemia due to shunting through a patent foramen ovale immediately following mitral valve replacement.
Streitz
J M
JM
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Maggs
P R
PR
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001794:Blood Pressure; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology*; D008943:Mitral Valve; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D012086:Reoperation