Reconstruction of atrioventricular valves in patients with antiphospholipid syndrom

Authors: Skopin I.I., Kakhktsyan P.V., Latyshev M.S., Kopylova N.S., Khugaev G.A., Sokol’skaya N.O.

Company: Bakoulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Moscow, 121552, Russian Federation

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Type:  Case reports


DOI: https://doi.org/10.24022/1997-3187-2021-15-1-108-117

For citation: Skopin I.I., Kakhktsyan P.V., Latyshev M.S., Kopylova N.S., Khugaev G.A., Sokol’skaya N.O. Reconstruction of atrioventricular valves in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome. Creative Cardiology. 2021; 15 (1): 108–17 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.24022/1997-3187-2021-15-1-108-117

Received / Accepted:  11.03.2021 / 17.03.2021

Keywords: antiphospholipid syndrome Libman–Sacks endocarditis mitral valve reconstruction of mitral valve systemic lupus erythematosus

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Abstract

In the mid-1980s, rheumatologist G.R. Hughes described an autoimmune state of hypercoagulation as a result of hyperproduction of antiphospholipid antibodies, which later became known as antiphospholipid syndrome or Hughes syndrome. The earliest clinical manifestation of Hughes syndrome is damage to the valvular complex of the heart, the frequency of which ranges from 33 to 76%. In most cases, mitral valve damage occurs, the severity of which varies from minimal changes (slight regurgitation or thickening of the valve cusps) to severe (hemodynamically significant stenosis and/or valve insufficiency). In the literature there is an extremely small number of publications devoted to the results of surgical treatment of patients with valve damage in the antiphospholipid syndrome. The article presents a case of successful mitral valve reconstruction in a patient with Libman–Sacks endocarditis caused by secondary antiphospholipid syndrome against systemic lupus erythematosus.

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About Authors

  • Ivan I. Skopin, Dr. Med. Sc., Professor, Head of Department of the Heart Valves and Coronary Arteries Reconstructive Surgery, Director of Institute of Coronary and Vascular Surgery, ORCID
  • Pavel V. Kakhktsyan, Cand. Med. Sc., Senior Researcher, ORCID
  • Mikhail S. Latyshev, Cand. Med. Sc., Junior Researcher, ORCID
  • Natal’ya S. Kopylova, Cand. Med. Sc., Senior Researcher, ORCID
  • Georgiy A. Khugaev, Junior Researcher, ORCID
  • Nadezhda O. Sokol’skaya, Dr. Med. Sc., Scientific Secretary, Head of Group of Ultrasound and Functional Diagnostics, ORCID

Chief Editor

Leo A. Bockeria, MD, PhD, DSc, Professor, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Bakoulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery