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Implantation of a Mechanical Valve Within the Orifice of a Mitral Bioprosthesis in a Case with Severely Calcified Left Atrium

A Case Report

Toshiki Doi

Hideya Unno

Kanji Matsuzaki

Toshio Mitsui

Yuzuru Sakakibara, MD, FACA

Department of Surgery Institute of Clinical Medicine University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, 305-8575 Japan

The case of a 61-year-old woman with deterioration of mitral bioprosthesis and severe left atrial calcification is presented. Although the implantation of a mechanical valve within the orifice of a mitral bioprosthesis was tried, we found a major pitfall in this method was exact orifice matching.

Angiology, Vol. 49, No. 9, 857-860 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979804900910


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