ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Page Count: 7

Cardiac Injury During Valve Replacement Surgery
Waller, BF
Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN

Hawley, DA
Assistant professor, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN

Gauger, DW
Fellow in forensic pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN

Kennedy, JC
Resident in pathology, Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Inc., IN

Pless, JE
Professor and director, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN

(Received 14 April 1987; accepted 13 May 1987)

Abstract

The commonly referenced mortality of cardiac valve replacement surgery is 2 to 5%. Some of this mortality is due to therapeutic misadventure during the procedure. Therapeutic misadventure during cardiac valve replacement may result in patterned injury of the heart, so that postmortem examination can establish the nature of the surgical injury. A case of patterned myocardial injury during valve replacement surgery is presented, with a review of literature and associated cases.

Keywords:
pathology and biology, prosthetic devices, therapeutic misadventure, cardiac valve prosthesis

Paper ID: JFS12463J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12463J
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