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Stentless fresh pulmonary homograft in mitral position
A Renzulli1, F Cerasuolo, M Festa
1Istituto di Cardiochirurgia, Facoltá di Medicina, II Università di Napoli, Ospedale V. Monaldi, Naples, Italy.
Texas Heart Institute Journal
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
We report the implantation of a fresh, stentless pulmonary homograft in the mitral position as an attempt to treat the 2nd recurrence of prosthetic endocarditis in a 66-year-old man. The postoperative course was uneventful; early postoperative transesophageal echocardiography showed a competent valve with a gradient of 4.2 mmHg. Fifteen months postoperatively, transthoracic echocardiography showed a good functioning homograft with a competent valve and no recurrence of endocarditis.