[Separation of a Beall Surgitool prosthesis disk 15 years after mitral valve replacement].
The case of a 46-year-old woman who survived disc embolization of a Beall Surgitool prothesis for 10 days is described. The patient presented to another hospital 15 years after implantation of a mitral valve prothesis with acute severe heart failure refractory to medical therapy. Ten days later she was referred for cardiological investigation and a missing mitral valve disc was diagnosed by echocardiography and right heart catheterization. Immediate surgical valve replacement led to a good recovery. The embolized disc was later localized by ultrasound and abdominal CT and removed from the abdominal aorta.
D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D004617:Embolism / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000209:etiology; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000601:surgery*; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Ausriss einer Beall-Surgitool-Prothesenscheibe 15 Jahre nach Mitralklappenersatz.