Mechanical prosthetic valve-associated strands: Pathologic correlates to transesophageal echocardiography

Prosthetic Heart Valves

1996 • 807 citations

Enhanced detection of intracardiac sources of cerebral emboli by transesophageal echocardiography.

1991 • 243 citations

On the mode of formation of Lambl's excrescences and their relation to chronic thickening of the mitral valve

1949 • 96 citations

Detection of prosthetic valve strands by transesophageal echocardiography: Clinical significance in patients with suspected cardiac source of embolism

1995 • 71 citations

Mobile strands are frequently attached to the St. Jude Medical mitral valve prosthesis as assessed by two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography

1992 • 32 citations

Small abnormal echos after mitral valve replacement with bileaflet mechanical prostheses: predisposing factors and effect on thromboembolism.

1993 • 29 citations

Detection of Fibrous Strands on Prosthetic Mitral Valves With Transesophageal Echocardiography: Another Potential Embolic Source

1994 • 25 citations

Recurrent Ischemic Strokes in a Patient with Medtronic-Hall Prosthetic Aortic Valve and Valve Strands

1998 • 16 citations

Mobile echoes on prosthetic valves are not reproducible; results and clinical implications of a multicentre study

1999 • 14 citations

Morphologic Analysis of a Strand Recovered from a Prosthetic Mitral Valve: No Evidence of Fibrin

1999 • 9 citations

The development of valvular strands during thrombolytic therapy detected by transesophageal echocardiography

1996 • 8 citations