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May 1, 1968Archives of Surgery

General Operative Procedures After Cardiac Valve Replacement

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33 patients with one or more prosthetic cardiac valves who underwent secondary operative procedures at the…

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Authors

DBDouglas M. BehrendtLeuphana University of Lüneburg

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Implication

Historical case series on prosthetic valve reoperations; applicability to modern practice remains untested.

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Population
33 patients with one or more prosthetic cardiac valves (caged-ball type) who underwent secondary operative procedures at the National Heart Institute.
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Intervention
Secondary operative procedures (abdominal or thoracic) and special methods of preoperative, operative, and postoperative management.

This historical case series describes the perioperative management of patients with early prosthetic cardiac valves undergoing secondary surgical procedures.

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Douglas M. Behrendt (1968) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8d0caac7b917c7ae39b2a4https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1968.01330230132019
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