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A 44-year experience of prosthetic heart valve implantation at Niigata University Hospital

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Abstract

Based on a single hospital experience of heart valve implantation from 1965 to 2009, the superiority of prosthetic heart valves including Starr–Edwards caged ball valves, Omniscience aortic tilting disc valves, and St. Jude Medical bileaflet valves are reviewed. This review discusses the prominent antithrombogenicity of the Starr–Edwards model 1200 aortic prosthesis under selected conditions, the relatively rarely thrombosed (despite its decreased opening angle) Omniscience aortic valve, the long-term outcomes 10 as well as 30 years after St. Jude Medical valve replacement, and finally the latest results on the significance of patient–aortic prosthesis mismatch in relation to myocardial hypertrophy. The findings described here should be considered in further investigations of cardiac valve prostheses.

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  1. Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Asahimachidohri 1-757, Niigata, 951-8510, Japan

    Jun-ichi Hayashi

  2. Niigata Prefectural Koide Hospital, Hiwatashishinden 34, Uonuma, Niigata, 946-0001, Japan

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Presented as the Presidential Lecture at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs, November 13, 2009.

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Hayashi, Ji. A 44-year experience of prosthetic heart valve implantation at Niigata University Hospital. J Artif Organs 15, 109–116 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10047-012-0637-5

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