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Ross operation and right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with stentless xenografts
W Konertz1, A Sidiropoulos, H Hotz
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany.
The Journal of Heart Valve Disease
|July 1, 1996
Abstract:
Traditionally a homograft valve is used as a pulmonary replacement device for the Ross operation. Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction during aortic valve replacement with an autograft was performed with stentless xenograft valves in nine patients. Hemodynamic performance is satisfying, but, long term evaluation is needed.