Replacement of an aortic Starr-Edwards ball valve prosthesis 28 years after implantation
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Full-root Aortic Valve Replacement by Stentless Aortic Xenografts in Patients with Small Aortic Roots
Published on: May 21, 2017
Keiichiro Tayama1, Hidetoshi Akashi, Eiki Tayama
1Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan. ktayama@med.kurume-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
A 53-year-old woman who had undergone aortic valve replacement with a Starr-Edwards (S-E) valve (Model 1260) and open mitral commissurotomy 28 years previously was hospitalized with cardiac failure. Echocardiography showed mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, and a normally functioning S-E prosthesis. At reoperation, the mitral and aortic valves were replaced with St Jude bileaflet mechanical prostheses. Examination of the explanted S-E prosthesis revealed no structural abnormality other than lipid infiltration of the silastic ball.
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