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

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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Veröffentlicht in:Case reports in medicine 2009-01, Vol.2009 (2009), p.1-2
Hauptverfasser: Eris, Cüneyt, Ata, Yusuf, Ozyazicioğlu, A., Ata, Filiz, Yalcin, Mihriban, Turk, Tamer
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1687-9627
1687-9635
DOI:10.1155/2009/165858