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Full-root Aortic Valve Replacement by Stentless Aortic Xenografts in Patients with Small Aortic Roots
Published on: May 21, 2017
Aortic valve replacement four years after cardiac transplantation
A E Fiane1, J L Svennevig, T Frøysaker
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery A, Rikshospitalet, University of Oslo, Norway.
European Heart Journal
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
Severe aortic insufficiency developed in a 56-year-old woman 4 years after cardiac transplantation. Aortic valve replacement was performed with insertion of a 23 mm Carbo Medics mechanical prosthesis. The patient recovered completely and is, 5 months after valvular replacement, in New York Heart Association functional class I.

