title: A technique for aortic valve replacement on the beating heart with continuous retrograde coronary sinus perfusion with warm oxygenated blood.
abstract: The protection of ventricular myocardium in aortic valve operations is always an issue because those hearts do not tolerate global ischemia well. A technique of aortic valve replacement is described involving continuous retrograde coronary sinus perfusion with warm oxygenated blood used in 34 patients to date without any complications. This technique maintains a beating heart throughout the procedure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. borut.gersak@maat.si
authors.forename: Borut
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gersak
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010477:Perfusion / Q000379:methods*