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Rare disease
Severe haemolytic anaemia after valvuloplasty and annuloplasty
Summary
Haemolytic anaemia is a well-recognised but rare complication of heart-valve prostheses. The authors report a case of an 80-year-old woman with severe haemolytic anaemia previously treated with valvuloplasty and annuloplasty without rings. To our knowledge, no cases of haemolysis have been described with this type of surgery.
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Competing interests None.
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