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Mitral valve replacement six years after cardiac transplantation
J G Copeland1, L J Rosado, G Sethi
1Section of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 33-year-old man found to have increasing mitral regurgitation and decreasing exercise tolerance 6 years after cardiac transplantation received a mitral bioprosthesis. For 8 months he has been without complications from the valve replacement and is clinically and hemodynamically considerably improved.