Thrombosis of Prosthetic Cardiac Valve: Difficulties of Diagnostics on the Example of a Clinical Case with Lethal Outcome
Journal: Rational Pharmacotherapy in Cardiology
Year: 2020

The article describes the clinical observation of thrombosis of prosthetic cardiac valve in a 51-year-old female patient, 9 years after surgical intervention for a degenerative aortic valve disease with the installation of mechanical prosthesis into the aortal position and further warfarin medication, with absence of international normalized ratio (INR) control over the past six months. The patient's condition worsened under the “mask” of decompensation of left ventricular circulatory failure; p