title: [Efficacy of aortic valve replacement with freestyle stentless valve in patients with aortic valve disease].
abstract: Stentless porcine aortic bioprosthesis has several potential advantages over conventional stented bioprosthesis. The Medtronic Freestyle aortic bioprosthesis, a stentless design analogous to an aortic allograft, has zero-pressure-fixed leaflets treated with an antimineralization agent, and has been shown to have benefits of superior effective orifice area, excellent flow characteristics and durability. To evaluate the early results for its efficacy in view of post-operative performance. The valve was implanted using the cylinder method, with subcoronary, root-inclusion techniques or full root techniques. No patients experienced any significant valvular regurgitation on echocardiography. The post-operative data of EDVI, ESVI and LVPWD decreased significantly as compared with the pre-operative data while ejection fraction remained unchanged. The average peak pressure gradient was 16.5 mmHg, and the average effective orifice area was 2.45 cm2. In conclusion, Freestyle stentless aortic bioprosthesis showed excellent hemodynamic function. It seems to be suited for the older patient with a small aortic annulus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome