Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - Fever occurred 20 days after mitral and aortic valve replacement.

Fever occurred 20 days after mitral and aortic valve replacement.

Check the valve or blood culture with echocardiography when fever occurs.

Because of the common complications after heart valve replacement:

Perivalvular leakage refers to the abnormal communication between the artificial valve and the patient's own annulus tissue. It may be related to postoperative infection and suture technique.

Thrombosis and thromboembolism of prosthetic valve are related to improper anticoagulant therapy.

Hemolysis and hemolytic anemia.

Prosthetic valve infective endocarditis.

Brain injury: refers to the neurological or mental disorder caused by organic brain injury after open heart surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass.

Pericardial incision syndrome.

Secondary bleeding and pericardial tamponade after prosthetic valve replacement often occur in the early stage of anticoagulant therapy.

Low cardiac output syndrome.

Acute respiratory failure.

Liver dysfunction and failure.

Multiple organ failure.

Mediastinal infection.