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Successful replacement of a fractured Björk-Shiley aortic valve prosthesis
C M Gaos1, J P Tiller, S K Lochridge
1Alabama Heart Institute, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Baptist Medical Centers, Birmingham.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
We report successful surgical intervention following the diagnosis of total aortic valvular incompetence which was caused by the uncommon fracture and disc embolization of a Björk-Shiley aortic valve prosthesis implanted ten months previously.