Mazeika P, Oakley C M
Clinical Cardiology Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
J R Coll Physicians Lond. 1990 Jul;24(3):167-72.
Information from the UK Heart Valve Registry, which was established in 1986 and receives data from all centres in the National Health Service, shows that more than 5,000 artificial heart valves are implanted each year in Britain and that almost two-thirds of these are mechanical. This article is intended as a practical outline of the clinical problems and complications which may occur.
英国心脏瓣膜注册处自1986年成立,接收国民医疗服务体系所有中心的数据,该注册处提供的信息显示,英国每年植入超过5000个人工心脏瓣膜,其中近三分之二是机械瓣膜。本文旨在对可能出现的临床问题和并发症进行实际概述。