Hellenic journal of cardiology : HJC = Hellēnikē kardiologikē epitheōrēsē
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Case Reports
Cardiac autotransplantation for aortic and mitral valve replacement in a patient with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis.
Adequate exposure is a prerequisite for open valve surgery. The mitral valve can rarely be very challenging to expose. We describe a redo double valve replacement in a patient with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in whom exposure of the mitral valve was achieved with cardiac autotransplantation.