Subject(s)
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease , Adult , Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease/complications , Humans , PedigreeABSTRACT
A 52-year-old male patient, who underwent mitral replacement with a mechanical prosthesis as a child, sustained a cardiac arrest which was successfully resuscitated. Further investigation showed prosthesis malfunction with significant regurgitation in the context of multi-organ failure. In such a life-threatening condition, veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was considered as a rescue procedure to achieve optimisation of clinical status to allow definitive surgical treatment. An unusual complete fracture of the prosthesis was subsequently identified as the cause of acute dysfunction.
ABSTRACT
A patient who underwent previous implantation of a mitral valve replacement with a Björk-Shiley Delrin (BSD) mitral valve prosthesis during infancy was admitted to our institution 43 years later after an episode of syncope and cardiac arrest. Under extreme hemodynamic instability, a mitral valve prosthetic dysfunction causing massive mitral regurgitation was identified. The patient underwent an emergent cardiac operation, and a complete disc fracture with partial disc migration was found. Exceptional cases of mechanical prosthetic heart valve fracture exist. We report the first case of complete transversal disc rupture of a BSD mitral valve prosthesis after the longest period of implantation ever reported in that position.
Subject(s)
Bioprosthesis/adverse effects , Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation/adverse effects , Mitral Valve/surgery , Prosthesis Design/methods , Prosthesis Failure , Echocardiography, Transesophageal/methods , Emergency Treatment/methods , Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation , Follow-Up Studies , Heart Septal Defects, Atrial/surgery , Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation/methods , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Mitral Valve/abnormalities , Reoperation/methods , Resins, Synthetic , Risk Assessment , Time Factors , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
A patient was submitted to mitral valve replacement and tricuspid ring annuloplasty. During immediate postoperative course, signs of inferior myocardial ischemia appeared. Acute entrapment of the right coronary artery due to tricuspid ring sutures was confirmed by coronary angiography. The patient was reoperated and a right coronary bypass graft was successfully performed. Tricuspid procedures have shown to be effective and secure with a low rate of complication. Few cases of right coronary artery occlusion have been described and the majority not treated. Exceptional cases of right coronary occlusion related to tricuspid ring annuloplasty have been reported with a favorable outcome, as the case described herein.
