Vascularization of bioprosthetic valve material

Derek R. Boughner; Joy Dunmore-Buyze; Dino Heenatigala; Tara Lohmann; Christopher G. Ellis

doi:10.1117/12.346751

21 April 1999 Vascularization of bioprosthetic valve material

Derek R. Boughner, Joy Dunmore-Buyze, Dino Heenatigala, Tara Lohmann, Christopher G. Ellis

Proceedings Volume 3603, Systems and Technologies for Clinical Diagnostics and Drug Discovery II; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.346751
Event: BiOS '99 International Biomedical Optics Symposium, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Cell membrane remnants represent a probable nucleation site for calcium deposition in bioprosthetic heart valves. Calcification is a primary failure mode of both bovine pericardial and porcine aortic heterograft bioprosthesis but the nonuniform pattern of calcium distribution within the tissue remains unexplained. Searching for a likely cellular source, we considered the possibility of a previously overlooked small blood vessel network. Using a videomicroscopy technique, we examined 5 matched pairs of porcine aortic and pulmonary valves and 14 samples from 6 bovine pericardia. Tissue was placed on a Leitz Metallux microscope and transilluminated with a 75 watt mercury lamp. Video images were obtained using a silicon intensified target camera equipped with a 431 nm interference filter to maximize contrast of red cells trapped in a capillary microvasculature. Video images were recorded for analysis on a Silicon Graphics Image Analysis work station equipped with a video frame grabber. For porcine valves, the technique demonstrated a vascular bed in the central spongiosa at cusp bases with vessel sizes from 6-80 micrometers . Bovine pericardium differed with a more uniform distribution of 7-100 micrometers vessels residing centrally. Thus, small blood vessel endothelial cells provide a potential explanation patterns of bioprosthetic calcification.

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Derek R. Boughner, Joy Dunmore-Buyze, Dino Heenatigala, Tara Lohmann, and Christopher G. Ellis "Vascularization of bioprosthetic valve material", Proc. SPIE 3603, Systems and Technologies for Clinical Diagnostics and Drug Discovery II, (21 April 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.346751

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