[Place of the Ross procedure (pulmonary autograft) in aortic valve surgery].
The pulmonary autograft operation consists of an aortic replacement using the autologous pulmonary valve. The pulmonary valve is substituted by a cryopreserved pulmonary homograft. This operation is in fact a delicate double valve replacement whose benefits are linked to the viability of the new aortic substitute. The pulmonary autograft has superb hemodynamic features and very low thrombogenicity. The report of a selected observation offers the occasion of defining the current indications of this operation in aortic valve surgery.
Radermecker
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Service de Chirurgie cardio-vasculaire et thoracique, Université de Liège.
Grenade
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Gach
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J
Marchal
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Limet
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D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D015925:Cryopreservation; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000637:transplantation*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous