[HSF] Failed perimount

[Donald Ross]

What was his 6th valve and what is his age and valve history?
Sounds interesting.
Don
On 01/02/2008, at 3:01 PM, tdmartin2000 at aol.com wrote:

> Just before the STS I removed a perimount that I had implanted in  
> 1993 - 15 YRS AGO!
> ?As you know I have been preaching that these valves almost all  
> fail by calcification and stenosis. Well, this one failed from  
> stress holes in the leaflets and AI with absolutely NO evidence of  
> calcification anywhere on the valve. I will have to say however  
> that it was his 5th valve and the porcine valve I took out in 93  
> had been in for almost 18 yrs.
>
> Tom Martin
> U of Florida
> Gainesville
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tea Acuff <tacuff at swbell.net>
> To: OpenHeart-L <OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com>
> Sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:03 pm
> Subject: [HSF] STS funny story
>
>
>
> I don't remember who said this to me. Maybe the guilty party will  
> fess up.
>
> We had been at the STS for less than a day and visited with a few  
> of us from
> HSF. (I'm sure others did the same else where). A few hours later a  
> ran into
> someone again who reported that so and so had already got his notes  
> out on the
> HSF. "He really had to get his ideas out. He's got it bad...."
>
> Thinking later it reminded me of my second grade observation which  
> I have shared
> before. "Johnny had his eyes open during the prayer".
>
> tea
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