A patient with a 30-year-old Björk-Shiley mechanical
mitral valve without anticoagulation for 10 years

Ali Cemal Duzgun; Ekin İlkeli

doi:10.5114/kitp.2021.107473

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Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska/Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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Letter to the Editor

A patient with a 30-year-old Björk-Shiley mechanical mitral valve without anticoagulation for 10 years

Ali Cemal Duzgun

¹

,

Ekin İlkeli

²

Cardiovascular Surgery, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Cardiovascular Surgery, Duzce State Hospital, Duzce, Turkey

Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2021; 18 (2): 111-112

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2021.107473

Online publish date: 2021/07/05

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Today, a wide variety of mechanical mitral valves are implanted for mitral valve pathologies to replace native valves with cardiopulmonary bypass. Life-long use of anticoagulants is essential in mechanical valve patients. Otherwise, serious valve thrombosis leads to fatal outcomes. However, the risk of degeneration of mechanical valves is much lower compared to bioprosthetic valves [1]. We present the case of a 50-year-old female patient with a functional Björk-Shiley mechanical mitral valve who was not using anticoagulation for more than 10 years.

A patient with a 30-year-old Björk-Shiley mechanical mitral valve without anticoagulation for 10 years

Ali Cemal Duzgun 1 , Ekin İlkeli 2

Ali Cemal Duzgun

¹

,

Ekin İlkeli

²