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Implant recovery card (irc) received indicates that patient underwent double valve surgery on (b)(6) 2016 receiving onxane-21 and onxm-25 indicated for severe aortic insufficiency and severe mitral regurgitation.Procedure performed was "transesophageal echocardiogram [tee], mitral valve replacement, chordal sparing (25 mm on-x mechanical valve), aortic valve replacement (21 mm on-x mechanical valve), extensive pericardial adhesiolysis secondary to extensive pericarditis." additional information received indicated that patient died on (b)(6) 2016.A preliminary autopsy report indicates the following: provisional anatomic diagnoses: cardiovascular system: status post (b)(6) 2016 aortic valve & rnltral valve replacement surgery; both mitral and aortic on-x prosthetic heart valves appear properly positioned and intact; small epicardlal abscess (1 cm) ad]acent to prosthetic mltral valve b, heart with cardlomegaly (569 g); left ventricular hypertrophy; focal scarring of myometrlum suggestive of remote infarct; no acute infarction seen; flbrlnous perlcarditis; calcfflc atherosclerosis of coronary arteries.Pulmonary system: congested appears to lungs ,bilaterally (each lung 720 g); no evidence of acute infarct or pulmonary emboli.A definitive cause of death was not indicated.This report is relegated to the onxane-21 valve.
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