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Standardized Technique of Aortic Valve Re-implantation for Valve-sparing Aortic Root Replacement
Published on: December 11, 2017
A technique for aortic valve replacement on the beating heart with continuous retrograde coronary sinus perfusion
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. borut.gersak@maat.si
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 8, 2003
Abstract:
The protection of ventricular myocardium in aortic valve operations is always an issue because those hearts do not tolerate global ischemia well. A technique of aortic valve replacement is described involving continuous retrograde coronary sinus perfusion with warm oxygenated blood used in 34 patients to date without any complications. This technique maintains a beating heart throughout the procedure.
