title: A modified free-hand technique for homograft aortic valve replacement.
abstract: A modified technique for trimming and inserting the aortic homograft valve is described. This altered free-hand technique is designed to maintain normal spacial geometry of the valve apparatus in order to reduce the risk of early homograft valve incompetence.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229.
authors.forename: W W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Bailey
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000379:methods