| Autor: |
Arnáiz-García, María Elena, Dalmau-Sorlí, María José, González-Santos, José María, Pérez-Losada, María Elena, Sastre-Rincón, José Alfonso, Hernández-Hernández, Jesús, Vargas-Fajardo, Mª Carmen, Sagredo-Meneses, Víctor, López-Rodríguez, Javier, Arnáiz-García, Ana María |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association; Apr2018, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p140-142, 3p |
| Abstrakt: |
A 52-year-old male patient, who underwent mitral replacement with a mechanical prosthesis as a child, sustained a cardiac arrest which was successfully resuscitated. Further investigation showed prosthesis malfunction with significant regurgitation in the context of multi-organ failure. In such a life-threatening condition, veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was considered as a rescue procedure to achieve optimisation of clinical status to allow definitive surgical treatment. An unusual complete fracture of the prosthesis was subsequently identified as the cause of acute dysfunction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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