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Published on: December 11, 2017
Tailor-made approach for quadricuspid aortic valve repair
Takeshi Shimamoto1, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Takeshi Maruo
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Okayama, Japan.
Abstract:
We describe the successful repair of a quadricuspid aortic valve in a 64-year-old man after attempted tricuspidization via detachment of a commissure of the accessory cusp failed. Bicuspidization via detachment of another commissure was successful. Quadricuspid aortic valve repair by bicuspidization, which surgically transforms 3 cusps into 1, may be a simple and reproducible technique if tricuspidization repair has failed.
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