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Anesthetic management of a patient with prosthetic heart valve for non-cardiac surgery: A case report

BACKGROUND: Patients with prosthetic heart valves are a challenge to any anesthesiologist due to the risk of infective endocarditis, bleeding and thrombosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present anesthetic management of a 58-year-old Indian lady with a prosthetic (mechanical) heart valve who underwent hemi...

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Autores principales: Umesh, Goneppanavar, Verma, Swati, Jasvinder, Kaur
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2569916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18826632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-196