Multiple sternotomies for repeated aortic root replacement--optimising the surgical approach
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Standardized Technique of Aortic Valve Re-implantation for Valve-sparing Aortic Root Replacement
Published on: December 11, 2017
1Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK. jeffrey.lim@doctors.net.uk
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|July 28, 2009
Abstract:
A 44-year-old patient with fungal endocarditis required a total of five sternotomies over ten years. We present the course of his treatment, details of the surgical techniques employed as well as other interesting points encountered in the management of this patient.

