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On 19/5/2005 a male patient, aged 44, underwent surgery for explanting his mitral bioprosthetic heart valve, which was malfunctioning, having become stenotic. The valve had remained in the patient’s heart for 63 months.
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Helsen, J.A., Missirlis, Y. (2010). Heart Valve Substitutes. In: Biomaterials. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12532-4_12
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