[HSF] Valve Dysfunction - failure of Closure

[Nasser F. Abou'Seada]

no ... it was not oversized. 
what about if the leaflets were not stuck closed .... rather in opening
position .... failure to close I mean ??

NFA

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> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:40 PM
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> Subject: Re: [HSF] Valve Dysfunction - failure of Closure
> 
> One might be able to open a stuck valve by sticking a probe through the
> ventricular apex after opening the chest in the ICU, at least one leaflet,
which
> might allow some cardiac output for long enough to get patient on bypass.
Was
> this valve oversized and forced into the annulus? Such might deform the
valve
> ring just enough to allow leaflets to stick. John Flege
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