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  • Title: Aortic valve replacement with the Björk-Shiley tilting disc valve prosthesis. Clinical experiences in 50 cases.
    Author: Larmi TK, Kärkölä P, Takkunen J.
    Journal: Scand J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg; 1975; 9(2):85-9. PubMed ID: 1179200.
    Abstract:
    Single aortic valve replacement with the Björk-Shiley tilting disc valve prosthesis has been performed in 50 patients since April 1971. None of the total of six deaths (12.0%) was attributable to malfunction of the prosthesis or to embolic complications. Follow-up examination showed insignificant or moderate prosthetic regurgitation in two patients and moderate paravalvular leakage in one patient. A slight intravascular haemolysis was found in two cases, one of them without marked regurgitation, and a slight reversible cerebral thrombo-embolism in two. Clinical improvement was observed in 43 of the 44 survivors during the 6 to 12 months of follow-up. Objective evidence of improvement was verified by cardiac catheterization following the replacement of aortic valve with the Björk-Shiley tilting disc prosthesis.
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