Images in cardiovascular medicine. Local erosions of a bioprosthetic aortic valve cusp caused by towering ring suture knots too close to the valve.
Yerebakan
Can
C
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany. can.yerebakan@med.uni-rostock.de
Westphal
Bernd
B
Liebold
Andreas
A
Steinhoff
Gustav
G
D000368:Aged; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001705:Bioprosthesis / Q000592:standards; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis / Q000592:standards; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000009:adverse effects*