Extended Durability of a Cloth-Covered Star-Edwards Caged Ball Prosthesis in Aortic Position

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The Starr-Edwards caged ball valve is one of the oldest cardiac valve prosthesis and was widely used all around the world in the past decades.

Despite the long-term results that have been reported there are only a few cases reported that exceed 30 years of durability.

Here in, we report a 53-year-old patient with a well-functioning 35-year-old aortic Starr-Edwards caged ball prosthesis.