Aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis caused by alkaptonuria.

Junko Hiroyoshi, Aya Saito, Nirmal Panthee, Yasushi Imai, Dai Kawashima, Noboru Motomura, Minoru Ono

Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2013 March

We report a case of aortic stenosis associated with ochronosis in a 70-year-old man who underwent biologic aortic valve replacement. Intraoperative findings included ochronosis of a severely calcified pigmented aortic valve along with pigmentation of the intima of the aorta.

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