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Fifteen years survival without anticoagulation after mechanical tricuspid valve replacement: a case report
Fifteen years survival without anticoagulation after mechanical tricuspid valve replacement: a case report
Ferit Çiçekçioğlu, Mehtap Temurtürkan, Ali İhsan Parlar, Seyhan Babaroğlu, Ayşen Aksöyek, Ufuk Tütün, Ahmet Tulga Ulus, Salih Fehmi Katırcıoğlu
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, Ankara
Isolated tricuspid valve replacement is not a common operation
and the choice between mechanical and biologic prostheses
remains controversial. When mechanical prosthesis
are used, anticoagulant therapy is mandatory. In this article,
we report a 21-years-old female patient who survived
15-years without anticoagulation following tricuspid valve
replacement with a Björk-Shiley prosthesis. Ultimately the
mechanical valve was stuck and we replaced the tricuspid
valve with a St. Jude Medical trileaflet bioprosthesis.
Keywords : Cardiac surgical procedures; heart valve prosthesis; prosthesis failure; tricuspid valve
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