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Marco Russo1, Valentina Gislao1, Carlo Bassano1
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Policlinic, Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
The Cooley-Cutter prosthesis is a caged-disc mechanical heart valve introduced by Dr Cooley in the 1960s. Although the valve has been implanted worldwide in more than 3,000 patients, there is a lack of detailed data on its long-term performance, only anecdotal reports. We report the case of a patient who had undergone aortic valve replacement with a Cooley-Cutter prosthesis 39 years earlier for rheumatic disease on a tricuspid aortic valve and in whom a proximal aortic aneurysm had subsequently developed.
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