Pannus formation on St. Jude Medical prosthetic aortic valve 23 years after initial operation.
Sugiura
Tadahisa
T
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan. ssugiura@hij.twmu.ac.jp
Koide
Masaaki
M
Kunii
Yoshifumi
Y
Umehara
Nobuhiro
N
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