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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 75, 313-316, Copyright © 1978 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Malfunction of Cutter-Smeloff mitral prosthesis. An echocardiographic diagnosis

F Behi, S Chang and T Welch

Progression of intermittent partial or total impaction of the poppet from a prosthetic mitral valve may be difficult to evaluate in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and atrial fibrillation. Heart sounds may be distant; opening and closing clicks of the poppet are muffled and irregular. Echocardiography provides a noninvasive method to detect early prosthetic malfunction at a time when the patient is clinically asymptomatic.




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