The Ross operation: applications to children.
The Ross operation is the operation of choice for children requiring an aortic valve replacement. It is associated with a low surgical mortality and late morbidity and does not require anticoagulation. It allows a growing child to have a near-normal lifestyle with a limited risk of reoperation for autograft valve or homograft valve failure.
Section of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73190, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000502:physiology / Q000637:transplantation*; D012086:Reoperation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous