Treatment of aortic insufficiency with a descending aortic valvular homograft: 19-year follow-up and historical perspective.
This case report and 19-year follow-up concerns a patient with aortic insufficiency who was one of the first to undergo surgical treatment with a descending aortic valvular homograft. The historical perspective afforded here may stimulate ideas concerning advances in future methods and materials to be used in cardiac surgery.
Smith
J Marvin
JM
Division of Surgery of the Texas Heart Institute of St. Luke's Episcopal and Texas Children's Hospitals, Houston, Texas.
Dernbach
Timothy A.
TA
Cooley
Denton A.
DA