title: Redoing a bioprosthetic tricuspid valve replacement with pacemaker wire through the ruined bioprosthetic valve orifice.
abstract: Severe tricuspid regurgitation with permanent pacemaker wire passing through the orifice of bioprosthetic tricuspid valve is extremely rare. We present a case of such kind of patient and redid bioprosthetic tricuspid valve replacement. A hawk mouth forceps for bone surgery was used to cut off the mental ring of ruined bioprosthetic tricuspid valve and the ruined valve was removed. A new bioprosthetic tricuspid valve was implanted and the wire of permanent pacemaker was left outside the ring of bioprosthetic tricuspid valve. This method may be helpful for such kind of patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical college, Beijing 100037, China.
authors.forename: Hong-wei
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Shi-wei
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Yun-hu
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Sheng-shou
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000601:surgery*