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Pulmonary autograft failure after aortic root replacement in a patient with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
R J van Suylen1, P H Schoof, E Bos
1Department of Pathology, Dijkzigt Hospital, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
We report a 12-year-old girl suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with severe aortic valve incompetence who died 5 months after an initially successful Ross procedure. Pulmonary autograft failure was a result of recurrence of aggressive valvulitis.