prosthetic valves

Mechanical

Patients must be on long term anticoagulant treatment with this type of prosthetic due to the destruction of RBC

Ball and cage, floating disc, bileaflet, unileaflet

List four times of prosthetic valves

Starr Edward’s valve

Mc ball And cage

Bjork-Shirley

Mc monocuspid tilting disc

St. Jude

Mc bileaflet valve

3

All bioprosthetic valves have__ leaflets

Tissue degeneration/calcification

Mc cause of bioprosthetic valve failure

Ring prosthesis

Prosthetic which is sutured into mitral annulus to support native leaflets, requires no long term anticoagulant treatment

Vegetations

Bacterial endocarditis is a common complication for prosthetic valves and appears as __ on valves

Thrombus formation

Mc abnormality for mechanical valves, bioprosthetics are highly resistant to this

30

Patients must be evaluated within __ days of surgery

Velocity ratio

Transcatheter aortic valves are best evaluated for stenosis by using the

Dehiscense

Strut detachment from heart

2 serial exams

Diagnosis of stenosis of a prosthetic requires how many exams demonstrating abnormal flow patterns

Tetralogy of Fallot

Mc indication for valve conduit to correct PV stenosis

Planiemtry

Which measurement is inaccurate after a mitral comissurotomy

MR

Mitraclips are used to correct