A 53 year-old man with Laennec's and hepatitis C-related cirrhosis was found to have dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction during routine evaluation for orthotopic liver transplantation. The outflow tract obstruction gradient was quantified as being 155 to 189 mmHg maximally during dobu
Thrombus causing fatal left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in a heart transplant patient
β Scribed by Clark, Vivian L. ;Levine, T. Barry
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-6569
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