title: Acute heart failure caused by mechanical valve leaflet dislodgment at the mitral position.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fukuoka Kinen Hospital, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan.|Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomohisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fukuoka Kinen Hospital, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan.
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Masumoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
authors.forename: Nobuhiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tahara
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fukuoka Kinen Hospital, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fukumoto
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve; D011475:Prosthesis Failure / Q000009:adverse effects*