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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;131:760-761
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

St Jude Medical Regent valve

Cardiac Surgical Associates, PA, Minneapolis, MN 55407

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To the Editor:

The recent publication by Øvrum and Tangen ¹ describes acute leaflet arrest with implantation of the St Jude Medical Regent valve (St Jude Medical, Inc, St Paul, Minn), specifically accumulation of subvalvular tissue into the leaflet and hinge mechanism. Several issues need to be raised with this brief report.

The St Jude Medical Regent valve, as noted, is implanted in the supra-annular position; only the pivot guards are intra-annular (Figure 1). My colleagues and I have described our technique for implanting all St Jude Medical valves utilizing everting mattress . . . [Full Text of this Article]