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Cardiac autotransplantation for aortic and mitral valve replacement in a patient with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis
Aristotelis Panos1, Fotis Milas, Spyros Kalakonas
1Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece. a.panos@bluewin.ch
Abstract:
Adequate exposure is a prerequisite for open valve surgery. The mitral valve can rarely be very challenging to expose. We describe a redo double valve replacement in a patient with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in whom exposure of the mitral valve was achieved with cardiac autotransplantation.
