Mitral Valve Necrosis After Cardiac Surgery Using Gelatin-Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Glue Yuki Tanaka, MD, Tadashi Kitamura, MD, PhD, Yurie Miyata, MD, Kagami Miyaji, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 103, Issue 5, Pages e435-e436 (May 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.10.011 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Intraoperative images. (A) The white arrow shows blackening of the abscess cavity and the red arrow shows a perforation of A2 in the mitral valve leaflet. (B) The removed anterior leaflet, with the red arrow showing a perforation. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, e435-e436DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.10.011) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Pathological images by hematoxylin and eosin staining showed the aggregation of macrophages in the necrotic tissue (black arrows) and the hyalinization (white arrow). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 103, e435-e436DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.10.011) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions