title: Rapidly deteriorated failure of Carpentier-Edwards porcine bioprosthesis caused by three detached commissures: report of a case.
abstract: A 58-year-old man required an emergency redo mitral valve replacement due to a rapidly deteriorating failure of the Carpentier-Edwards porcine bioprosthesis within [corrected] a few days after the initial operation. The removed bioprosthesis showed that its three commissures had all peeled off each stent, which may have occurred within a short time, and caused massive, rapidly progressive trans-bioprosthetic regurgitation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Terada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wanibuchi
mesh_terms: D001705:Bioprosthesis; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation; D013997:Time Factors