PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bruce W. Lytle
AU  - Delos M. Cosgrove
AU  - Judith Borsh
AU  - Lon A. Castle
AU  - Floyd D. Loop
TI  - Mitral valve replacement
DP  - 1985 Sep 21
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 369--373
VI  - 52
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/3/369.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/52/3/369.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1985 Sep 21; 52
AB  - Records of the first 100 patients surviving operation for total mitral valve replacement at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1962-1964) were reviewed to determine long-term results. After 20 years, 15 patients were still alive, but 13 had sustained a major cardiac event. Complications related to lack of anticoagulant therapy for patients with mechanical prostheses were frequent. No patient-related variable examined appeared to preclude 20-year survival.