The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 85, 794-796, Copyright © 1983 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Thrombosis associated with a porcine bioprosthesis and ascending aortic graft in a patient with the Marfan syndrome
T Collins, FJ Schoen, GH Mudge and JJ Collins Jr
A fatal thrombosis originating at the junction of an aortic bioprosthetic
heart valve and a Dacron aortic graft was observed in a patient with the
Marfan syndrome, who had had replacement of the ascending aorta with a
valved conduit 29 months previously. This unique complication raises the
question of whether patients with such prostheses should be on a program of
full anticoagulation.