Abstract:A 32-year-old female patient presented with shortness of breath. The patient had received aortic valve replacement with a 25-mm bioprosthetic valve at the age of 22, and had had two babies, postoperatively. Ten years later, echocardiography showed the calcified bioprosthetic valve with a high peak pressure gradient (70 mmHg) and a reduced valve orifice area (0.46 cm 2 ). Electrocardiographically gated multidetector row computed tomography (ECG-gated MDCT) clearly demonstrated calcified bioprosthetic cusps with… Show more
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