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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;131:730-731
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Brief Communication

Occasional single-beat regurgitation observed with the new Medtronic ADVANTAGE bileaflet heart valve

^a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Germany
^b Department of Anesthesiology, German Heart Center Munich, Germany

Received for publication October 7, 2005; accepted for publication October 26, 2005.

^_* Address for reprints: Walter B. Eichinger, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Lazarettstr 36, 80636 Munich, Germany (Email: eichinger@dhm.mhn.de).

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The Medtronic ADVANTAGE prosthesis (Medtronic, Inc, Minneapolis, Minn) is a new bileaflet mechanical heart valve. The multicenter clinical trial to obtain worldwide regulatory approvals for the device began in November 1999. Currently, the study continues with the follow-up of all enrolled patients until US Food and Drug Administration approval is granted. In our series containing 61 study patients and 2 patients outside the study with an aortic prosthesis, we echocardiographically observed an intermittent regurgitation in 7 patients. The intermittent trivial to moderate aortic regurgitation occurring 1 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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