Extended durability of a cloth-covered star-edwards caged ball prosthesis in aortic position.
The Starr-Edwards caged ball valve is one of the oldest cardiac valve prosthesis and was widely used all around the world in the past decades. Despite the long-term results that have been reported there are only a few cases reported that exceed 30 years of durability. Here in, we report a 53-year-old patient with a well-functioning 35-year-old aortic Starr-Edwards caged ball prosthesis.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Education and Research Hospital, 16330 Bursa, Turkey.
Yusuf
Y
Ata
Tamer
T
Turk
Cüneyt
C
Eris
Mihriban
M
Yalcin
Filiz
F
Ata
A
A
Ozyazicioğlu