title: Pannus formation on St. Jude Medical prosthetic aortic valve 23 years after initial operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan. ssugiura@hij.twmu.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tadahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugiura
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koide
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kunii
authors.forename: Nobuhiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Umehara
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000473:pathology*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation