Pulmonary autograft failure after aortic root replacement in a patient with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
We report a 12-year-old girl suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with severe aortic valve incompetence who died 5 months after an initially successful Ross procedure. Pulmonary autograft failure was a result of recurrence of aggressive valvulitis.
van Suylen
R J
RJ
Department of Pathology, Dijkzigt Hospital, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Schoof
P H
PH
Bos
E
E
Frohn-Mulder
O M
OM
den Hollander
J C
JC
Herzberger-ten Cate
R
R
Thijssen
H J
HJ
D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D015925:Cryopreservation; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000209:etiology; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000473:pathology / Q000637:transplantation*; D012008:Recurrence; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous / Q000379:methods