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Full-root Aortic Valve Replacement by Stentless Aortic Xenografts in Patients with Small Aortic Roots
Published on: May 21, 2017
A "double overlap" suture technique for the proximal attachment of a composite graft to the aortic annulus
John A Rousou1, Abdallah K Alameddine, Chunjie Yang
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts 01107, USA. susan.parent@bhs.org
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 28, 2007
Abstract:
Repair of an aortic root aneurysm using a composite graft is sometimes complicated by proximal suture line bleeding, which may be very difficult to control. We adopted a previously described technique of "double overlap" sutures on the annulus and the prosthetic cuff, which has virtually eliminated this complication.

