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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1997;114:147
© 1997 Mosby, Inc.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Can you top this?

Director of Cardiovascular Services
Instructional Heart Institute of Montana
St. Patrick Hospital
554 West Broadway
Missoula, MT 59802

To the Editor:

On the order of "Can you top this?," I place in the running for the longest recorded functioning bioprosthesis a Medtronic porcine bioprosthesis (Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.), which was implanted in a Catholic priest on March 22, 1976, by Dr. Duvoisin of Spokane, Washington. This bioprosthesis was replaced on December 5, 1995, after 19 years and 258 days. At the second operation, we found two of the three leaflets to be surprisingly intact, with only minimal calcification; the third leaflet had torn at the site of more dense calcification at the post. As the patient was only 52 years old at the time of this reoperation. I replaced the valve with an aortic homograft root.

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