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Bilateral coronary artery occlusion after aortic valve replacement in a patient with porcelain ascending aorta
1 Department of Cardiology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
2 Department of Pathology, La Paz University Hospital, Paseo de la Castellana 261, 28046 Madrid, Spain
* Corresponding author. E-mail address: asanchezr.hulp@salud.madrid.org
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A 75-year-old woman with diabetes and chronic renal failure underwent aortic valve replacement (St. Jude Medical Biocor 21 mm, St Paul, MN, USA) for severe aortic stenosis. Pre-operative cardiac catheterization showed normal coronary arteries and a severe calcification of the aortic valve and