Bioprosthetic dysfunction caused by preserved native valve in tricuspid position.
We report a 4-year-old girl who underwent replacement of a bioprosthetic valve in the tricuspid position due to rare bioprosthetic dysfunction. The bioprosthetic valve showed marked tricuspid insufficiency as well as stenosis caused by the adhesion of the preserved native valve leaflets to the undersurface of the implanted bioprosthesis.
Kobayashi
Mariko
M
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University, Kanagawa 232-8555, Japan.
Asou
Toshihide
T
Lin
Zong-Bo
ZB
Takeda
Yuko
Y
Ohara
Kuniyoshi
K
Yoshimura
Hirokuni
H
D001705:Bioprosthesis; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation; D014261:Tricuspid Valve; D014264:Tricuspid Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications*