mechanical heart valve replacement
Security and cost comparison of INR self-testing and conventional hospital INR testing in patients with mechanical heart valve replacement
... Methods: This was a prospective self-controlled clinical study conducted with 526 patients receiving oral warfarin anticoagulation therapy after mechanical heart valve replacement in the ...
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A prediction study of warfarin individual stable dose after mechanical heart valve replacement: adaptive neural-fuzzy inference system prediction
... after Heart Valve Replacement” (CLIATHVR), which was registry study involving 35 participating centers from 15 provinces in China collecting all patients who under- went heart valve ...
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Outcome of left heart mechanical valve replacement in West African children - A 15-year retrospective study
... Prosthetic valve thrombosis occurred in 5 patients at ...Conclusion: Mechanical valve replacement in West African children has excellent outcomes in terms of mortality, valve-related ...
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A biomechanical and biochemical synergy study of heart valve tissue
... the heart has to work much harder at pushing the blood ...the heart and could even lead to death. In the second case, valve regurgitation (valve insufficiency), the heart valve ...
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The effects of a low international normalized ratio on thromboembolic and bleeding complications in patients with mechanical mitral valve replacement
... Lifelong anticoagulation is essential for all patients with mechanical heart valve prostheses. However, it is difficult to achieve optimal anticoagulation with war- farin, which requires a careful ...
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Comparison 30-day clinical complications between transfemoral versus transapical aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis: a meta-analysis review
... post-operative heart block comprising sudden post-operative AV block or other cardiac arrhythmia which need pace-maker implantation, is a life-threatening ...by mechanical pressure to the conduction system ...
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Early Postoperative Anticoagulation by Enoxaparin after Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement
... after mechanical aortic valve replacement is still a matter of debate even more that the early postoperative phase is associated with maximum of thrombo-embolic and bleeding ...ter mechanical ...
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Prosthetic heart valve selection in women of childbearing age with acquired heart disease: a case report
... prosthetic heart valve. Mechanical heart valve prostheses, which require lifelong indirect anticoagulant therapy (war- farin, phenindione), are not appropriate because of the ...
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A numerical study of hemodynamic effects on the bileaflet mechanical heart valve
... of valve replacement (53% of surgical procedures on heart valves in years 1993-2006) than mitral regurgitation (17%) ...of valve models for the mitral position ...
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Characterisation of the cross linking and calcification associated with glutaraldehyde treated cardic bioprostheses
... self-sufficient heart (called the AbioCor) was successfully implanted by Drs Laman Gray and Robert Dowling1 in an American patient at the Jewish Hospital of Louisville in ...prosthetic replacement advances ...
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Concomitant mitral valve surgery with aortic valve replacement: a 21-year experience with a single mechanical prosthesis
... mitral valve repair is associated with low mortality [13] a number of these patients had previous valve replacement which is associated with a higher oper- ative ...Kingdom heart valve ...
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The effect of valve noise on the quality of life of patients after mechanical mitral valve replacement in a Chinese population
... of mechanical heart valves generates an impulse that is transmitted to the patient ’ s inner ear via two routes: as acoustically transmitted sound waves and as vibrations transmitted through bones and ...
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Cardiac crossroads: deciding between mechanical or bioprosthetic heart valve replacement
... The process of deciding which prosthetic valve type is best for an individual patient is complex. Consideration of the general advantages and disadvantages of the valve types, as outlined above, is only the ...
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Surgery for Acute Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection in an Inner City Community Hospital: Single Surgeon’s Experience
... root replacement, aortic valve plus ascending aortic replacement and aortic valve sparing procedures from 2004 to ...graft replacement and the reported operative mortalities do not ...
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A Study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on anticoagulant drug compliance among patients with mechanical heart valve in GKNM Hospital, Coimbatore
... Degenerative valve disease is a growing concern due to the rising amount of valve replacement surgeries among the ...prosthetic heart valve surgeries were performed each year worldwide, ...
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Thromboembolic and bleeding complications in patients with mechanical heart valve prostheses
... The reports were only included if the following criteria were stated and met: duration of follow-up; type of anticoagulation and number of patients treated; possibility to discriminate, [r] ...
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Multidisciplinary transcatheter aortic valve replacement heart team programme improves mortality in aortic stenosis
... structural heart disease specialist who, in turn, takes referrals from both cardiac and non-car- diac medical practitioners and reviews initial results and organises subsequent ...structural heart special- ...
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Educational Needs of Patients with Heart Valve Replacement Surgery in Birjand, 2012
... Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was conducted cross-sectionally during the summer of 2012. The questionnaire was designed by the researchers and covered demographics and knowledge assessment sections (in four ...
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Comprehensive update on the new indications for transcatheter aortic valve replacement in the latest 2017 European guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
... The diagnostic work-up before TAVR was in the early days mainly limited to a TOE and coronary angiography (CAG) including an aortography and angiography of the iliofemoral arteries. In the updated 2017 ESC/ EACTS ...
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Pitfalls in TAMVI: experience with the repositionable Lotus® Valve System
... Lifesciences) valve in the aortic position was performed and the perioperative TEE showed a good ...mitral valve position in the interdisciplinary team, as it is not ...Scientific) valve, as it is ...
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