title: Treatment of aortic insufficiency with a descending aortic valvular homograft: 19-year follow-up and historical perspective.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Surgery of the Texas Heart Institute of St. Luke's Episcopal and Texas Children's Hospitals, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: J Marvin
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Timothy A.
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Dernbach
authors.forename: Denton A.
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Cooley