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A Technique to Facilitate the Native Valve Reimplantation During the David Procedure
Author(s) -
El Arid JeanMarc,
Azzaoui Richard,
Koussa Mohamed,
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.12311
Subject(s) - medicine , aortic root , cardiac skeleton , replantation , surgery , sinus (botany) , aortic valve , regurgitation (circulation) , aorta , botany , biology , genus
The reimplantation technique for valve‐sparing aortic root replacement is increasingly used to treat aortic root pathology. The systematic approach described by El Khoury in 2009 and modified in 2011 using the Valsava graft is simple and reproducible. However, in‐conduit suturing of the aortic valve annulus and small rim of sinus remnant to the graft sinuses is time‐consuming and may lead to bleeding or distortion of the prosthetic root. We describe a simple technique to facilitate the native valve reimplantation. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12311 (J Card Surg 2014;29:485–486)