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Dysfunction of Implanted Heart Valves

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After valve replacement, patients are never healed completely. Cardiac operation restores their hemodynamics and improves, both subjectively and objectively, their functional status. Th e patients, however, become the carriers of a valve prosthesis, and as such they are exposed to a lifelong risk of postoperative complications caused by potential valve dysfunctions. Anticoagulation therapy, which is inevitable in all patients after implantation of mechanical prostheses, is associated with bleeding complications (resulting mostly from overdose) as well as thromboembolic events (due to ineffective anticoagulation).

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Dominik, J., Zacek, P. (2010). Dysfunction of Implanted Heart Valves. In: Heart Valve Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12206-4_9

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