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Ann Thorac Surg 1978;26:336-343
© 1978 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Hemodynamic Evaluation of Lillehei-Kaster and Starr-Edwards Prostheses

Departments of Surgery and Medicine, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN.

^* Address reprint requests to Dr. Nicoloff, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgical Service, University of Minnesota, Box 280, Mayo Memorial Bldg, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

The central-flow low profile disc-valve prosthesis has been offered as an alternative to ball- and tissue-valve prostheses. Extensive laboratory investigation with both pulse duplicator and experimental animals has been reported for the Lillehei-Kaster prosthesis. A series of patients receiving this prosthesis underwent postoperative cardiac catheterization to better define the hemodynamic function of this prosthesis in vivo. Because of the variations in reports of hemodynamic data from various institutions, the results of postoperative studies in an earlier group of patients with Starr-Edwards prostheses were used as a standard for comparison. Good hemodynamic function was found with the pivoting-disc prosthesis in all but the smallest valve sizes. Lillehei-Kaster and early model Starr-Edwards prostheses with equivalent tissue annulus dimensions were found to have nearly equal valve areas in vivo in the aortic position. The Lillehei-Kaster mitral valves provided larger areas than Starr-Edwards prostheses in large tissue annulus sizes.

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