Reimplantation valve-sparing aortic root replacement with the Valsalva graft: What have we learnt after 100 cases?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-116

  Settepani, Fabrizio ^a   Bergonzini, Marcello ^a   Barbone, Alessandro ^a   Citterio, Enrico ^a   Basciu, Alessio ^a   Ornaghi, Diego ^a   Gallotti, Roberto ^a   Tarelli, Giuseppe ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic surgery; Aortic valve; Valve sparing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DACRON IMPLANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MECHANICAL STRESS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; REIMPLANTATION; SECOND LOOK SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REOPERATION; REPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650150224     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.202622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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