Ultrastructural Substrates of Dystrophic Calcification in Porcine Bioprosthetic Valve Failure

Overview

Journal Am J Pathol

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Pathology

Date 1985 Apr 1

PMID 3985118

Citations 20

Authors

M Valente

U Bortolotti

G Thiene

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Abstract

Calcific degeneration is the main cause of porcine bioprosthetic valve failure. This dystrophic phenomenon has been studied by transmission electron microscopy in 26 explants; six normally processed unimplanted xenografts and a pig aortic valve from the slaughterhouse served as controls. Loss of endothelial lining and proteoglycans were a regular finding in all the commercially processed valves. In order to detect initial calcifications, we investigated in particular areas apparently devoid of mineralization at x-ray. Three main ultramicroscopic features were found: 1) intracytoplasmic and interstitial calcospherulae in 22 explants, 2) calcified collagen fibrils in 15, and 3) platelike calcium deposits upon amorphous material in 3. X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive microanalysis identified Ca2+ deposits as crystals of hydroxyapatite. From these findings there is evidence that debris and membrane fragments of the pig cusp cells represent one of the initial nuclei of calcification.

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