PMID- 7626870
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19950905
LR  - 20190920
IS  - 0886-0440 (Print)
IS  - 0886-0440 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 3
DP  - 1995 May
TI  - Stentless porcine bioprostheses in the treatment of aortic valve infective 
      endocarditis.
PG  - 205-9
AB  - Between January 1992 and June 1994, 23 patients underwent surgery for aortic 
      valve endocarditis at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of the University 
      of Verona; a subgroup of 10 patients underwent aortic valve replacement with a 
      porcine stentless valve (Biocor LTDA n = 8; Toronto SPV n = 2). There were 7 
      males and 3 females with a mean age of 56.3 years (range, 36 to 73 years). Eight 
      patients had active endocarditis and two had healed endocarditis. Nine patients 
      had native valve in endocarditis, the presence of a bicuspid aortic valve in 2, 
      and 1 patient had recurrent prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE), 7 of whom were 
      in New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Class IV. The main indications 
      for operation were congestive cardiac failure, active sepsis, and presence of 
      large and mobile vegetations by echo and arrhythmias. There were no operative or 
      late mortalities in this subgroup of patients. Short-term survival is 100% at a 
      mean follow-up time of 11.2 months (range, 4 to 18 months), with no recurrent 
      endocarditis or valve-related complications.
FAU - Santini, F
AU  - Santini F
AD  - Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Verona Medical School, Italy.
FAU - Musazzi, A
AU  - Musazzi A
FAU - Bertolini, P
AU  - Bertolini P
FAU - Pugliese, P
AU  - Pugliese P
FAU - Fabbri, A
AU  - Fabbri A
FAU - Faggian, G
AU  - Faggian G
FAU - Prioli, A
AU  - Prioli A
FAU - Mazzucco, A
AU  - Mazzucco A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Card Surg
JT  - Journal of cardiac surgery
JID - 8908809
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - *Aortic Valve
MH  - *Bioprosthesis
MH  - Endocarditis, Bacterial/mortality/*surgery
MH  - Female
MH  - *Heart Valve Prosthesis
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
EDAT- 1995/05/01 00:00
MHDA- 1995/05/01 00:01
CRDT- 1995/05/01 00:00
PHST- 1995/05/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1995/05/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1995/05/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1995.tb00600.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Card Surg. 1995 May;10(3):205-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1995.tb00600.x.