Extended Durability of a Cloth-Covered Star-Edwards Caged Ball Prosthesis in Aortic Position

The Starr-Edwards caged ball valve is one of the oldest cardiac valve prosthesis and was widely used all around the world in the past decades. Despite the long-term results that have been reported there are only a few cases reported that exceed 30 years of durability. Here in, we report a 53-year-ol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ata, Yusuf, Turk, Tamer, Eris, Cüneyt, Yalcin, Mihriban, Ata, Filiz, Ozyazicioğlu, A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/165858
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Sumario:The Starr-Edwards caged ball valve is one of the oldest cardiac valve prosthesis and was widely used all around the world in the past decades. Despite the long-term results that have been reported there are only a few cases reported that exceed 30 years of durability. Here in, we report a 53-year-old patient with a well-functioning 35-year-old aortic Starr-Edwards caged ball prosthesis.

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