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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;128:795
© 2004 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the Editor

Carpentier-Edwards Perimount valve and intraoperative structural failure

Tomaso Bottio, MD, PhD, Vincenzo Tarzia, MD, Claudio Muneretto, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Brescia Medical School, Brescia, Italy

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the article by Saunders and associates.1 The authors described a post–cardiopulmonary bypass (post-CPB) structural valve failure, leading to an intraoperative replacement of 4 Carpentier-Edwards Perimount valves. The negative experience has been lived in 2 different institutions. Two Perimount valves were replaced because of a severe central insufficiency at the weaning-off phase from CPB, another valve was replaced soon after its insertion because of being judged not continent as a result of the impossibility of leaflet coaptation before atrial closure, and the last as . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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