Cardiac autotransplantation for aortic and mitral valve replacement in a patient with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.

نویسندگان

  • Aristotelis Panos
  • Fotis Milas
  • Spyros Kalakonas
  • Patrick O Myers
چکیده

Adequate exposure is a prerequisite for open valve surgery. The mitral valve can rarely be very challenging to expose. We describe a redo double valve replacement in a patient with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in whom exposure of the mitral valve was achieved with cardiac autotransplantation.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Hellenic journal of cardiology : HJC = Hellenike kardiologike epitheorese

دوره 51 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010