ACTA MEDICA
ACTA MEDICA
Acta Medica (Hradec Králové) is an English language multidisciplinary medical journal. Acta Medica publishes reviews, original articles, brief communications, case reports, announcements, and notices. The journal was founded in 1958 under the title “A Collection of Scientific Works of the Charles University’s Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové”. The journal is indexed in Chemical Abstracts, CNKI, DOAJ, EBSCO, Hinari, Index Medicus, MEDLINE, Scopus, and Ulrichsweb.

ACTA MEDICA, Vol 56 No 4 (2013), 167–169

Inadvertent Complication of Prosthetic Valve Surgery: Leaflet Perforation

Mehmet Dogan, Sadik Acikel, Ugur Arslantas, Tolga Cimen, Ekrem Yeter

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2014.13
published online: 23. 07. 2015

abstract

There are various complications of prosthetic valvular surgeries. Among them, leaflet perforation should be emphasized and brought to mind when there have been eccentric valvular regurgitation. In this report, we presented 2 cases of iatrogenic aortic and mitral valve leaflet perforation after prosthetic valve surgeries.

keywords: Mechanical heart valve; Complication; Leaflet perforation

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ISSN: 1211-4286
E-ISSN: 1805-9694

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