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Ross operation and mitral homograft for aortic and tricuspid valve endocarditis
A Prat1, O H Fabre, A Vincentelli
1Service de Chirurgie Cardiaque, Hôpital Cardiologique, Centre Hospitalier Régional, Lille, France. aprat@chru-lille.fr
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 22, 1998
Abstract:
We report here a case of concomitant aortic and tricuspid valve endocarditis occurring in a 26-year-old woman 2 weeks after she had given birth by cesarean delivery. Preoperative transthoracic echocardiography revealed a previously undetected aorta-right atrium fistula, which at operation appeared to be congenital in origin. Surgical treatment consisted of aortic valve replacement with a pulmonary autograft, tricuspid valve replacement with a cryopreserved mitral homograft, and closure of the fistulous communication. The postoperative recovery was uneventful.