title: Cardiac autotransplantation for aortic and mitral valve replacement in a patient with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.
abstract: Adequate exposure is a prerequisite for open valve surgery. The mitral valve can rarely be very challenging to expose. We describe a redo double valve replacement in a patient with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in whom exposure of the mitral valve was achieved with cardiac autotransplantation.
authors.affiliation: Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece. a.panos@bluewin.ch
authors.forename: Aristotelis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Panos
authors.forename: Fotis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Milas
authors.forename: Spyros
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalakonas
authors.forename: Patrick O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Myers
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery*; D054989:Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy / Q000150:complications*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D016896:Treatment Outcome