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Long‐ T erm Survival Following Surgery for Endomyocardial Fibrosis
Author(s) -
Fiore Antonio,
Grande Antonino Massimiliano,
Pellegrini Carlo,
Viganò Mario,
Massetti Massimo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12159
Subject(s) - medicine , endomyocardial fibrosis , decortication , surgery , fibrosis , tricuspid valve , cardiology
We report a successful follow‐up after 28 years of a woman with obliterative restrictive endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) that underwent complete surgical decortication with simultaneous mitral and tricuspid bioprosthetic valve replacement in 1982 and underwent successful reoperation for the structural failure of biological prostheses after 25 years. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12159 (J Card Surg 2013;28:675–677)