Nikolic Aleksandar, Schranz Ditmaer, Hristov Nikola, Mitrev Zan
Special Hospital for Cardiac Surgery Filip Vtori, Skopje, Macedonia.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2008 Oct;7(5):941-2. doi: 10.1510/icvts.2008.181867. Epub 2008 Jul 9.
We describe a case of a 46-year-old woman with dehiscence and paravalvular leak of a second-time replaced mitral mechanical prosthesis, successfully treated with Amplatzer occlusion of the paravalvular leak, thus avoiding a second reoperation and improving the patient's symptoms.