Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast with the carbomedics mitral valve prosthesis

Shimon A. Reisner; Diana Rinkevich; Walter Markiewicz; Zvi Adler; Simcha Milo

doi:10.1016/0002-9149(92)90309-M

Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast with the carbomedics mitral valve prosthesis

Shimon A. Reisner, Diana Rinkevich, Walter Markiewicz, Zvi Adler, Simcha Milo

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Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast is a well-known, although poorly understood, phenomenon that has been occasionally noticed in patients with low flow states such as the echoes seen in the left atrium in patients with mitral valve disease,¹ in the left ventricle in severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction² or in the inferior vena cava of patients with constrictive pericarditis.³ There are rare reports on spontaneous contrast in patients with mechanical prosthetic mitral valves.^4-6 Compared with the more common "smoke-like" contrast observed in low flow states, spontaneous echoes in patients with mechanical mitral prosthetic valves are bright and high velocity but scanty.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1497-1500
Number of pages	4
Journal	The American journal of cardiology
Volume	70
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(92)90309-M
State	Published - Dec 1 1992
Externally published	Yes

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