title: [Place of the Ross procedure (pulmonary autograft) in aortic valve surgery].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie cardio-vasculaire et thoracique, Université de Liège.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Radermecker
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Grenade
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gach
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marchal
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Limet
mesh_terms: 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