“…For the enlargement or substitution of the cuspids, several types of materials have been used, starting with ivalon sponge utilized by LILLEHEI in 1958 [20], fresh [21,22,24,25] or preserved bovine pericardium [27,31,32], heterologous pericardium treated with glutaraldehyde [11-13, 15, 26] and homographs [33].…”