Aortic valve replacement in a diseased bicuspid valve eleven years after transplantation.

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg

Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Blalock 618, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287-4618, USA.

Published: May 2009

Cardiac allotransplantation is subject to a number of chronic complications that may limit graft survival. These include allograft coronary artery disease, renal dysfunction, hypertension, and malignancy, which are largely due to the immuno-modulatory and adverse effects of transplant medications. Reoperation for native allograft disease progression is a rarer phenomenon. We report a case of aortic valve replacement for bicuspid aortic valve stenosis that occurred in a patient more than ten years after cardiac transplantation.

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