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Replacement Heart Valves - Mechanical and Bioprosthetic
Mechanical Valves:
 • Ball and Cage Valves: Hufnagel Caged Ball
Replacement Heart Valves ... Ball and Cage Valves ... Silastic Ball Valve ... Discontinued • Bileaflet ... Medical (1978), Bileaflet
Mechanical Valve Dehiscence - Leaflet Malfunction on Fluoroscopy

Dr Gopalan Rajesh @DrRajeshG1

#Mechanical #Valve #Dehiscence #Leaflet #Malfunction #clinical
Mechanical Valve ... Dehiscence - Leaflet ... #Mechanical #Valve ... #Dehiscence #Leaflet
Mitral Valve Endocarditis on POCUS Echocardiogram
66 yo presents with petechiae to lower extremities. Pt had mitral
Mitral Valve Endocarditis ... Pt had mitral valve ... a replacement valve ... the leaflets shouldn ... the anterior MV leaflet
Primary and Secondary Causes of Mitral Regurgitation
Primary (organic) chronic mitral regurgitation:
 • Leaflet: Rheumatic fever, Infective
and Secondary Causes ... regurgitation: • Leaflet ... • Prosthetic valve ... Mitral annulus valve ... diagnosis #cardiology #causes
Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients with Prosthetic Heart Valves - INR Targets
Mechanical Valve - Duration Lifelong
INR 3.0:
Prosthetic Heart Valves ... Targets Mechanical Valve ... • Any mitral valve ... prosthesis (bileaflet ... 2.5: • Aortic valve
Mitral Valve Regurgitation - Carpentier Classification
Type I - Normal Leaflet Motion
   - Type la
Mitral Valve Regurgitation ... Type I - Normal Leaflet ... - Type lb - Leaflet ... II - Increased Leaflet ... - Type II - Leaflet
Causes of mitral stenosis
Rheumatic heart disease
 - Most common cause worldwide. Commissural fusion, thick MV leaflets
Causes of mitral ... fusion, thick MV leaflets ... dysplastic MV leaflets ... and restricted leaflets ... atrial myxoma)/ball valve
Causes of Primary and Functional Mitral Regurgitation (MR) 
Causes of primary mitral regurgitation
 - Rheumatic heart
fibroelastic disease): Leaflets ... because of MV leaflet ... parachute mitral valve ... Ischemic MR: MV leaflet ... mid-portion of anterior leaflet
Causes of Severe Aortic Regurgitation - Differential Diagnosis
Acute:
 • Leaflet: Traumatic Rupture, Acute Infective Endocarditis, Acute
Causes of Severe ... Diagnosis Acute: • Leaflet ... Acute Prosthetic Valve ... Root Chronic - Leaflet ... Degeneration, Prosthetic Valve
Systolic Murmurs - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Benign / Flow / Hyperdynamic:
 • Pregnancy
 • Fever
 • Anemia
Supravalvular
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Regurgitation - Leaflet ... Regurgitation - Leaflet ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #causes