title: Pulmonary autograft failure after aortic root replacement in a patient with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Dijkzigt Hospital, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: van Suylen
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Schoof
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bos
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Frohn-Mulder
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: den Hollander
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Herzberger-ten Cate
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Thijssen
mesh_terms: 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