Successful use of a donor heart with quadricuspid aortic valve for orthotopic heart transplantation

Amit Pawale; Federico Milla; Sean Pinney; Anelechi C Anyanwu

doi:10.1111/jocs.12108

Successful use of a donor heart with quadricuspid aortic valve for orthotopic heart transplantation

J Card Surg. 2013 Jul;28(4):467-8. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12108. Epub 2013 May 5.

Authors

Amit Pawale¹, Federico Milla, Sean Pinney, Anelechi C Anyanwu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiac Transplantation, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.

PMID: 23646902
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.12108

Abstract

Quadricuspid aortic valve (QAV) is a rare congenital anomaly of the aortic valve. We describe transplanting a donor heart with a QAV with successful mid-term outcome.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Aortic Valve / abnormalities*
Aortic Valve / diagnostic imaging
Echocardiography
Female
Heart Diseases / surgery*
Heart Transplantation / methods*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Tissue Donors*
Treatment Outcome