Introduction: Transcatheter closure has become the treatment of choice for secundum atrial septal defects (ASD II), but particularly in small children, there is concern regarding procedure-related complications.
Case Description: We report on a 10-month-old infant, body weight of 6.4 kg, with a large ASD who was referred for failure to thrive and dyspnea on exertion.
We present results of the histopathological workup of a prosthetic aortic valve which was explanted from a 31-year-old woman due to valve thrombosis during early pregnancy. Our images demonstrate nicely thrombotic material directly adherent to the pyrolytic carbon surface in a human specimen.
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