Favorable Evolution of a 43-Year-Old Starr-Edwards Valve in the Tricuspid Position
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Chadi Aludaat, Arnaud Gay, Amina Guetlin, Catherine Nafeh-Bizet, Jean-Paul Bessou, Fabien Doguet Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, Department of Cardiology, Les Feugrais Hospital, Saint Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, France |
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The durability of a Starr-Edwards valve implanted in the tricuspid position in 1967 to treat Ebstein’s disease with tricuspid valve regurgitation. At surgery, cardiac permanent pacing for postoperative complete atrioventricular block was achieved using a nuclear-powered pacemaker (NP). Although the 43rd year ofcardiologic follow up was free from complications, |
the patient - a 74-year-old woman - suffered symptomatic mitral regurgitation and underwent a redo mitral valve replacement, during which the |
| Favorable Evolution of a 43-Year-Old Starr-Edwards Valve in the Tricuspid Position | |
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