Pannus formation on St. Jude Medical prosthetic aortic valve 23 years after initial operation.
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Fig. 1. Removed SJM valve; circumferential pannus extended into both on inflow (a) and outflow (b) side of the valve over the pivot guard. * Corresponding author. Address: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, 2-12-12, Sumiyoshi, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka 430-8558, Japan. Tel.: +81 53 474 2222; fax: +81 53 471 6050. E-mail address: [email protected] (T. Sugiura).
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عنوان ژورنال:
- European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
دوره 33 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008