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  • Title: Fracture of the wire stent in a Carpentier-Edwards porcine bioprosthesis.
    Author: Griffin S, Bouboulis N, Holden MP.
    Journal: J Heart Valve Dis; 1993 May; 2(3):357-8. PubMed ID: 8269133.
    Abstract:
    A 60-year-old woman underwent mitral and aortic valve replacement with Carpentier-Edwards supra-annular bioprosthesis in 1986. Six years later rapidly progressing exercise dyspnea and orthopnea made hospital admission necessary. At chest x-ray and cardiac catheter examination one of the wire struts of the mitral bioprosthesis was found completely broken causing cusp prolapse. Surgical findings at reoperation confirmed the diagnosis. No apparent cause of the stent fracture was found.
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