Sound spectroanalysis was carried out for diagnosis of malfunctioning prosthetic heart valves in 50 cases, which consisted of 31 mitral, 14 aortic, 4 mitral+aortic and 1 tricuspid valve replacements with the age ranging from 17 to 57 years. Types of prosthetic valves used in this series were Starr-Edwards silicon ball valves, metal ball valves, disc valves, Kay-Shiley valves, Smeloff-Cutter val...

We present an explantation image of an off-label transcatheter placed valve-in-valve Edwards Sapien in a Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Magna Ease aortic bioprosthesis (Edwards Lifesciences, Inc., Irvine, CA, USA) in the tricuspid position (Fig. 1). The valve was placed 1 year and 9 months before in an extremely frail patient with a complex cardiac surgical history due to an atrial septum defect ...

Aims/Objectives The aim of this study is to review our results with the Edwards Intuity Elite sutureless bioprosthetic aortic valve. Methods The perioperative data of patients who underwent aortic valve replacement during the last year by sutureless bioprotheses (Edwards Intuity Elite, n = 7) were reviewed retrospectively and compared to those who received a conventional bioprostheses (Edwards ...

the best valves currently in use. A linearized rate is calculated as the number of events divided by total patientyears, which is then multiplied by 100 to convert the rate to units of “events per 100 years” or “percent per year.” For mechanical valves, the OPC (percent/year) is estimated at 0.8 for valve thrombosis and 3.0 for thromboembolism. For biologic valves, the OPC (percent/year) is est...