Acute heart failure caused by mechanical valve leaflet dislodgment at the mitral position

Eur Heart J. 2017 Mar 7;38(10):761. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw521.

Authors

Tomohisa Nakamura^{1

2}, Akihiro Masumoto¹, Nobuhiro Tahara², Yasuo Kuroda¹, Yoshihiro Fukumoto²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fukuoka Kinen Hospital, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.

PMID: 28025190
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw521

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Female
Foreign-Body Migration / complications
Heart Failure / etiology*
Heart Valve Prosthesis*
Humans
Middle Aged
Mitral Valve
Prosthesis Failure / adverse effects*