Images in cardio-thoracic surgery
Screening of a stentless valve with electron beamed
tomograpy 5 years after operation
Belhhan Akpõnar
a,*, Mustafa Guden
a, Esat Memis,ogÆlu
baDepartment Of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kadir Has University, Abide'i Hurriyet Cad. No:280, Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey bDepartment of Radiology, Test Examining Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Received 17 November 2000; accepted 8 March 2001
Electron beamed tomography images of a patient who
received a stentless valve as a whole root (Freestyle,
MEDTRONIC Inc, Minneapolis, MI, USA) for ascending
aortic aneurysm and aortic valve insuf®ciency 5 years after
the operation, with no sign of wall and lea¯et calci®cation
(Fig. 1).
European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery 19 (2001) 929
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Fig. 1. (1) Dacron graft used to extend the freestyle valve; (2) freestyle valve used as a total root.
* Corresponding author. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Abide'i Hurriyet Cad. No:280, Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey. Fax: 190-21-2239-8791.
E-mail address: belh@turk.net (B. Akpõnar).