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Case Reports

A 37-Year-Old Smeloff-Cutter Aortic Valve

^a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
^b Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University, New York City, New York
^c Valley Columbia Heart Center, Ridgewood, New Jersey

Accepted for publication July 9, 2008.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Zapolanski, Valley Columbia Heart Center, 223 N. Van Dien Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 (Email: azapolanski{at}gmail.com).

We describe the case of a 64-year-old woman with mitral insufficiency that had undergone an aortic valve replacement with a Smeloff-Cutoff prosthesis (Cutter Laboratories, Berkeley, CA) 37 years ago. She underwent both aortic and mitral valve replacement. The patient's Smeloff-Cutter aortic valve was unchanged. This case demonstrates the longest durability for the Smeloff-Cutter aortic prosthesis reported in the literature.

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