Chronic mitral valve rejection requiring replacement in a nine-year-old allograft.
A 43-year-old woman underwent mitral valve replacement for severe mitral regurgitation nine years after orthotopic heart transplant. Histopathology showed chronic rejection of the mitral valve with lymphocytic infiltrates. The patient is well at one year follow-up. This report describes an identified case of chronic mitral valve rejection requiring valve replacement.
Ihnken
Kai
K
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Fann
James I
JI
Burdon
Thomas A
TA
Johnson
Frances L
FL
Kosek
Jon C
JC
Shumway
Norman E
NE
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications