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To Spare or Not to Spare…? The Aortic Valve in Scleroderma and Aortic Root Aneurysm
Author(s) -
Kasdi Reda,
El Arid JeanMarc,
Lambert Marc,
Launay David,
Polge AnneSophie,
Koussa Mohamad,
Modine Thomas
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12239
Subject(s) - medicine , aortic root , aortic valve , scleroderma (fungus) , cardiology , dilation (metric space) , connective tissue , aortic aneurysm , surgery , radiology , aorta , pathology , mathematics , combinatorics , inoculation
Acute valve‐sparing procedures are effective in the treatment of aortic root dilation when there is no valve pathology. In this review, we discuss the role of aortic valve‐sparing procedures in the presence of connective tissue disorders such as scleroderma. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12239 (J Card Surg 2014;29:55‐58)