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CASE REPORT
A case of right middle cerebral artery ‘tendonectomy’ following mitral valve replacement surgery
Summary
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.
- Stroke
- Thrombectomy
- Technique
- Endoscopy
- Complication