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Full-root Aortic Valve Replacement by Stentless Aortic Xenografts in Patients with Small Aortic Roots
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Aortic root replacement for bicuspid aortopathy following heart transplantation
Elizabeth H Stephens1, Shinichi Fukuhara1, Robert C Neely1
1Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|September 30, 2017
Abstract:
Although donors with well-functioning bicuspid aortic valves (BAV) are not a contraindication for transplantation, BAV patients are at risk for long-term aortopathy and valve dysfunction. We report a case of a patient status-post heart transplant 13 years ago who presented to our institution with a BAV and severe aortic regurgitation associated with an aortic root aneurysm and underwent aortic root replacement.
