Prosthetic heart valves

Case contributed by Varun Babu
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Witheld

Patient Data

Age: 80 years old
Gender: Female

Frontal chest radiograph

x-ray

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Annotated image

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CT chest

ct

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Case Discussion

It is important to be familiar with the different types of cardiac valves and their radiographic appearances. Of course functional assessment is best done with echocardiography / fluoroscopy. 

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