European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on April 13, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(21):2537; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi873
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Usefulness of ECG-gated multi-detector computed tomography for the diagnosis of mechanical prosthetic valve dysfunction
The Cardiovascular Center, University of Picardie, Amiens, France
* Corresponding author. CHU Amiens Sud, Service de Réanimation Cardiaque, 80054 Amiens Cédex 01, France. Tel: +33 3 22 45 58 70; fax: +33 3 22 45 56 61; E-mail address: leborgne.laurent@chu-amiens.fr
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A 70-year-old woman who had an aortic valve replacement with a bileaflet mechanical prosthetic aortic valve 14 months earlier, presented with congestive heart failure.
She was