ABSTRACT
A case of xenograft valve dysfunction presenting with musical cooing murmur is reported. The patient was a 47-year-old woman and had received mitral valve replacement with porcine xenograft (Carpentier-Edwards 31-M) 10 years before Preoperative echocardiogram showed vibration of a leaflet outside the stent of the bioprosthetic valve. Cardiac catheterization revealed stenosis as well as regurgitation of the bioprosthetic valve. The resected xenograft valve showed a tear which produced regurgitation and musical cooing murmur in one of three pliable leaflets and it also showed pannus formation which caused stenosis.
ABSTRACT
A 44-year-old male, with past history of mitral valve re-replacement, tricuspid annuloplasty and re-replacement of aorto-biiliac prosthetic graft 4 years previously, was admitted to Asahi General Hospital because of massive melena, sepsis and shock. Angiography revealed a false aneurysm at the site of the anastomosis between the graft and the right external iliac artery. He was diagnosed as having graft-enteric fistula, and the emergency operation, including partial resection of the graft, excision of the false aneurysm and extraanatomic bypass, was performed successfully. Pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of graft-enteric fistula are discussed.