A case of right middle cerebral artery 'tendonectomy' following mitral valve replacement surgery.

Mary C ThomasJosser E Delgado AlmandozAdam J ToddMark L YoungJennifer L FeaseJill Marie ScholzAnna M MilnerMaximilian MulderYasha Kadkhodayan

Published in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2017)

Following mechanical mitral valve replacement surgery, a 69-year-old woman had an ischemic stroke in the right middle cerebral artery territory. Mechanical thrombectomy showed the embolus to be a piece of chordae tendineae excised during the valve replacement surgery.

Keyphrases

mitral valve
middle cerebral artery
minimally invasive
coronary artery bypass
left atrial
internal carotid artery
left ventricular
surgical site infection
heart failure
acute coronary syndrome