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Replacement of a thrombosed valve after the Bentall procedure
Hideyuki Harada1, Toshiro Ito, Tohru Mawatari
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hokkaido Prefectural Kushiro Hospital, Kushiro, Japan. hideyuki.harada@pref.hokkaido.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 20, 2002
Abstract:
A 50-year-old man developed thrombosis in the valve of a Björk-Shiley prosthesis that had been used for composite graft replacement of the aortic valve and ascending aorta 8 years previously. The thrombosed valve was removed, and because of the narrow aortic valve ring, it was replaced using patch enlargement of the aortic annulus without replacement of the conduit.