Mechanisms of bioprosthetic heart valve calcification
Mechanisms of bioprosthetic heart valve calcification
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DOI:
10.1097/01.tp.0000062864.54455.e5
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发表时间:
2003-04-27
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影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Song, YC
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作者:
Brockbank, KGM;Song, YC
Background. Cryopreserved human heart valves are used in approximately 20% of the tissue heart valve procedures performed annually. The pathophysiology of allograft failure is not fully understood. The authors proposed the hypothesis that the rapid deterioration observed in some allograft heart valve recipients is caused by disruptive interstitial ice damage that occurs during cryopreservation and subsequently leads to accelerated valve degeneration on implantation.Methods. This hypothesis was tested by comparison of the standard commercial heart valve freezing method of cryopreservation and an ice-free, vitrification method of cryopreservation with fresh controls in a subcutaneous, juvenile rat implant model of calcification. Calcium concentration in explants was determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy.Results. Statistically significant calcification (P