Management of an acute ischemic stroke during thrombolytic treatment in a pregnant patient with prosthetic valve thrombosis

Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) is a life-threatening complication in pregnant women with mechanical prosthetic heart valves. Thrombolytic therapy (TT) has evolved as an effective treatment alternative to surgery, which is associated with very high maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity in the...

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Autores principales: Kalçık, Macit, Yesin, Mahmut, Bayam, Emrah, Gürsoy, Mustafa Ozan, Güner, Ahmet, Gündüz, Sabahattin, Özkan, Mehmet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Akadémiai Kiadó 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29201439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/1646.9.2017.30
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Sumario:Prosthetic valve thrombosis (PVT) is a life-threatening complication in pregnant women with mechanical prosthetic heart valves. Thrombolytic therapy (TT) has evolved as an effective treatment alternative to surgery, which is associated with very high maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity in these patients. Acute ischemic stroke may rarely occur during TT for PVT. Here, we present a pregnant patient who was complicated with cerebral thromboembolism during TT for PVT and successfully managed with continuation of TT.

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