What is a Magna Ease pericardial valve?

The Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT Magna Ease pericardial bioprosthesis is intended for use in patients whose aortic valvular disease is sufficiently advanced to warrant replacement of their natural valve with a prosthetic one.

What is a Magna Ease valve made of?

The Edwards Pericardial Aortic Bioprosthesis, Model 11000A, is a stented trileaflet valve comprised of RESILIA bovine pericardial tissue that is mounted on a flexible frame.

What is a Carpentier-Edwards valve made of?

This 23mm Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Magna aortic heart valve is a tri-leaflet design. The frame or stent is made from Eligiloy, a strong and durable alloy, and tissue from bovine pericardium.

Is Carpentier-Edwards valve mechanical?

The size of the tricuspid bioprosthesis was unknown, but a 31-mm Carpentier-Edwards porcine bioprosthesis was suspected based on (B) computed tomography and (C) fluoroscopy with size calculations derived from both mechanical valves.

What is Carpentier valve?

Background: The Carpentier-Edwards pericardial valve was designed to minimize structural valve deterioration. Excellent durability and low incidence of valve-related complications have been reported.

Is Magna Ease valve bioprosthetic?

The Magna Ease aortic valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA) is a third-generation bioprosthetic valve developed as a modification of the well-studied Perimount and Magna valve designs.

How long do bovine aortic valves last?

Reports suggest that the average lifetime of a cow valve replacement is about 10 to 15 years. Although some research suggests that cow valve replacements may last over 20 years. Therefore, younger patients opting to have cow valve replacement surgery may need to have a re-operation at a future time.

How long does an Edwards heart valve last?

In a separate Sapien 3 study, the Edwards valve demonstrated “excellent” durability equal to 25 years in accelerated wear testing, according to the researchers, who assessed hydrodynamic and mechanical performance in several sizes of the device.

How long does an Edwards aortic valve last?

Expected valve durability was 19 years for this age group. Age was not a significant risk factor for SVD in this middle-aged population. In patients aged 50–65 years undergoing AVR with the Carpentier-Edwards Perimount bioprosthesis, the expected valve durability was 19 years.