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We report pathological findings of the aortic homograft in a 27-year-old patient who died 20 years after implantation at the time of correction of tetralogy of Fallot. Although calcification of the homograft was severe with degeneration of valve leaflets, no functional obstruction of the homograft was found as a conduit. This observation may suggest a beneficial aspect of the aortic homograft as the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery conduit late after corrective surgery even if calcification was not avoided.
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Kobayashi, J., Kawashima, Y., Matsuda, H. et al. Pathological findings of the aortic homograft in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot twenty years after implantation. Heart Vessels 5, 98–101 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02058325
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