TY - JOUR
T1 - Microbubbles Mimicking Prosthetic Mitral Valve Thrombosis
AU - Sadiq, Muhammad Athar
PY - 2021/4/1
Y1 - 2021/4/1
N2 - A 36-year-old woman with a history of redo mitral valve replacement (bileaflet mechanical mitral valve prosthesis) in 2002 for prosthetic mitral valve endocarditis presented to the emergency department with a history of recurrent palpitations. A transthoracic echocardiogram was performed and falsely indicated a diagnosis of prosthetic mitral valve thrombosis. However, review of the echocardiogram by an experienced echocardiologist revised the diagnosis to microbubbles formation phenomenon with mechanical mitral prosthesis. Frame-by-frame analysis or reducing the frame rate of the recorded echocardiographic loop is vital to demonstrate the growing or dissipation of microbubbles and hence to avoid inadvertent thrombolytic therapy or surgical intervention.
AB - A 36-year-old woman with a history of redo mitral valve replacement (bileaflet mechanical mitral valve prosthesis) in 2002 for prosthetic mitral valve endocarditis presented to the emergency department with a history of recurrent palpitations. A transthoracic echocardiogram was performed and falsely indicated a diagnosis of prosthetic mitral valve thrombosis. However, review of the echocardiogram by an experienced echocardiologist revised the diagnosis to microbubbles formation phenomenon with mechanical mitral prosthesis. Frame-by-frame analysis or reducing the frame rate of the recorded echocardiographic loop is vital to demonstrate the growing or dissipation of microbubbles and hence to avoid inadvertent thrombolytic therapy or surgical intervention.
KW - microbubbles formation
KW - prosthetic mitral valve
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M3 - Article
C2 - 33794483
AN - SCOPUS:85103807747
SN - 1042-3931
VL - 33
SP - E317
JO - Journal of Invasive Cardiology
JF - Journal of Invasive Cardiology
IS - 4
ER -