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A 58-year-old man required an emergency redo mitral valve replacement due to a rapidly deteriorating failure of the Carpentier-Edwards porcine bioprosthesis only a few days after the initial operation. The removed bioprosthesis showed that its three commissures had all peeled off each stent, which may have occurred within a short time, and caused massive, rapidly progressive trans-bioprosthesic regurgitation.
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Terada, Y., Wanibuchi, Y. Rapidly deteriorated failure of Carpentier-Edwards porcine bioprosthesis caused by three detached commissures: Report of a case. Surg Today 24, 823–825 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01636314
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