title: Forty-year survival with Smeloff-Cutter and Starr-Edwards prostheses.
abstract: This case study describes a 40-year follow-up of a man who had a double valve replacement with Smeloff-Cutter aortic (Cutter Laboratories, Berkeley, CA) and Starr-Edwards mitral prostheses (Edwards Laboratories, Santa Ana, CA) when he was 34 years old. Double valve replacement was performed for aortic and mitral valve stenosis and insufficiency. To date, no surgical treatment has been required except a pacemaker implantation. The patient presented with a New York Heart Association functional class of I to II. Echocardiography revealed intact prostheses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kagawa, Japan. suezawa2004@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Takanori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suezawa
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Morimoto
authors.forename: Teiji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jinno
authors.forename: Mamoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tago
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001021:Aortic Valve; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D017741:Survivors; D013997:Time Factors