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12962418

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-9-9
pubmed:abstractText
This report describes a 60-year-old male patient who developed early valvular obliteration of a cryopreserved aortic valve allograft with associated severe valvular leakage. The patient had previously undergone two operations for aortic valve insufficiency resulting from infective endocarditis, and prosthetic valve endocarditis: aortic valve replacement with a mechanical prosthesis was done 4 years ago, and two years later aortic root replacement with a cryopreserved allograft was performed. Perforation through the non-coronary cusp of the aortic allograft was found, and valve replacement was achieved using a mechanical prosthesis. The intraoperative findings, histological, immunological, and bacteriological studies of the resected cusps demonstrated negative for infection and rejection, therefore, the valvular perforation might have been caused by an injury or degeneration during management of the homologous graft. The patient showed neither aortic regurgitation on echocardiography nor recurrence of endocarditis 10 months after surgery.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1344-4964
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
384-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Early valvular obliteration of cryopreserved aortic valve allograft.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports