%0 Journal Article %T Diagn¨®stico ecocardiogr¨¢fico y tomogr¨¢fico en trombosis prot¨¦sica mitral %A Sa¨ªnz Gonz¨¢lez de la Pe£¿a %A Benito %A Ramos Guti¨¦rrez %A Luis Benito %A Gonz¨¢lez Artiles %A Iovank %A Pacheco ¨¢lvarez %A Eleana %A Cabrera Rego %A Julio Oscar %A Gandarilla Sarmientos %A Julio C¨¦sar %J Revista Cubana de Medicina %D 2010 %I ECIMED %X despite the progress achieved in the design of mechanical prosthetic valves, prosthetic valve thrombosis remains a frequent cause of morbidity, usually due to incorrect anticoagulation. a patient was presented with mitral prosthetic thrombosis one year after implantation, who had been diagnosed by transthoracic transesophageal echocardiography imaging and 64-slice computed tomography. thrombolytic therapy was successful and led to the satisfactory evolution of the patient. %K mitral prosthetic thrombosis %K transesophageal echocardiography %K multislice computed tomography. %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-75232010000300009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en