Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery

Vol.4 No.3(2014), Paper ID 49211, 4 pages

DOI:10.4236/ojts.2014.43013

 

Prosthetic Ring Endocarditis with Shrunken Mitral Annulus Late After Undersized Mitral Annuloplasty

 

Masaki Hamamoto, Taira Kobayashi, Masamichi Ozawa, Hiroshi Kodama

 

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, JA Hiroshima General Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

 

Copyright © 2014 Masaki Hamamoto, Taira Kobayashi, Masamichi Ozawa, Hiroshi Kodama et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Hamamoto, M. , Kobayashi, T. , Ozawa, M. and Kodama, H. (2014) Prosthetic Ring Endocarditis with Shrunken Mitral Annulus Late After Undersized Mitral Annuloplasty. Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery, 4, 62-65. doi: 10.4236/ojts.2014.43013.

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