1. Organized Prosthetic Tricuspid Valve Thrombosis Treated Successfully with Medical Treatment
- Author
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Hyo-Sun Shin, Eun-Ah Park, Kyung-Hee Kim, Seungah Lee, Hee Sun Lee, Hong-Mi Choi, and Hyung Kwan Kim
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Tricuspid valve ,Medical treatment ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,medicine.drug_class ,Prosthetic tricuspid valve ,MDCT ,Low molecular weight heparin ,Computed tomography ,Case Report ,Thrombosis ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,medicine ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,Complication ,business - Abstract
Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) can be a life-threatening complication that requires immediate treatment. We present a case of 57-year-old woman with tricuspid PVT who was definitely diagnosed by multi-detector-row computed tomography limited with echocardiography. The patient was treated successfully with an alternative approach using low molecular weight heparin bridging therapy followed by intensifying anticoagulation alone.
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- 2013