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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 81, 100-105, Copyright © 1981 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Porcine heterograft valve replacement in carcinoid heart disease

FJ Schoen, RJ Hausner, JF Howell, HL Beazley and JL Titus

A 53-year-old man with a pancreatic carcinoid tumor and liver metastases had the carcinoid syndrome with involvement of the tricuspid valve by carcinoid plaque. The mitral valve was involved by unrelated myxomatous degeneration (floppy valve). Each valve was replaced by a Hancock glutaraldehyde-prepared porcine heterograft prosthesis. When the patient died of complications of the tumor 8 months postoperatively, both valves had clinically normal function. Nevertheless, the carcinoid plaque, which was present in all four cardiac chambers and almost completely covered the endocardial surfaces of both atria, extended onto both prostheses. This eventually might have interfered with prosthetic valve function.




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