[Stentless aortic root bioprosthesis (freestyle) to patients of bicuspid aortic valve with abnormal positioning of the coronary ostia].
Stentless aortic root bioprosthesis (Freestyle) was implanted to two patients of bicuspid aortic valve stenosis with anatomically abnormal positioning of the coronary ostia. In a patient of LR type bicuspid valve, the left coronary artery was located at 180 degrees against the right coronary ostium. To match the Valsalva sinus of the patient with bioprosthesis, the left half of the native annulus, 23 mm in the diameter, was plicated corresponding to the one third of the Freestyle inflow, 21 mm in the diameter. In the other patient of AP type bicuspid valve, both coronary ostia were closely positioned at 90 degrees. To keep both ostia in the sinus of bioprosthesis, careful trimming and suturing were required in the narrow part of both ostia. Their postoperative courses were uneventful and no regurgitation has been observed in either case.
First Department of Surgery, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Japan.
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Utoh
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Kunitomo
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Hara
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Sakaguchi
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Uemura
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Uemura
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Kitamura
D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged