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

Goneppanavar Umesh; Swati Verma; Kaur Jasvinder

doi:10.1186/1757-1626-1-196

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

Goneppanavar Umesh, Swati Verma, Kaur Jasvinder

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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 hemireplacement arthroplasty. Conclusion: Patients with prosthetic heart valves, especially those with the mechanical valves are prone for thrombosis and resultant complications if anticoagulation is not maintained properly. However, when they are scheduled for major surgery, they can be best managed by normalising the coagulation profile immediately prior to surgery and restarting the anticoagulation as early as possible.

Original language	English
Article number	196
Journal	Cases Journal
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-196
Publication status	Published - 30-09-2008
Externally published	Yes

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