Aortic valve repair: Easy and reproducible?

Aortic valve repair in children.

We are now realizing that aortic valve disease afflicting children is for the majority a life-long condition requiring repetitive interventions. Treatment strategies should be favoured that allow the largest proportion of patients to have the smallest number of interventions over their lifetime. Surgical techniques have been refined in the last two decades making primary surgery a more attracti...

Aortic valve and aortic arch pathology after coarctation repair.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of clinical problems related to a bicuspid valve (aortic stenosis and regurgitation) and the incidence of ascending aorta and aortic arch pathology in combination with coarctation repair. PATIENTS 124 adult patients after surgical correction of aortic coarctation were studied. The incidence of aortic valve, ascending aorta, and aortic arch pathology was ...

Aortic valve repair for active infective endocarditis.

Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Eur Heart J 2009;30:2369–413. [4] Grinda JM, Mainardi JL, D’Attellis N, Bricourt MO, Berrebi A, Fabiani JN et al. Cryopreserved aortic viable homograft for active aortic endocarditis. Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:767–71. [5] Schafers HJ, Bierbach B, Aicher D. A new approach to the assessment of aortic cus...

Video-atlas of aortic valve repair.

Polytetrafluoroethylene leaflet extensions for aortic valve repair.

(Leipzig, Germany): I commend you for your courage in using a new product designed for a completely different purpose, but which works well. My first question is, what are your indication criteria because you have patients with a moderate stenosis and moderate insufficiency, a mean of 1.8 and a mean gradient of 54? Dr Nosál': Typically our patients have a mixed aortic valve pathology, so the me...