Valve repair versus replacement when aortic regurgitation is caused by aortic root aneurysms: relative advantages and disadvantages and the impact of decision on surgical indications.
Girardi
Leonard N
LN
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Howard Gilman Institute for Valvular Heart Disease, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA. lngirard@mail.med.cornell.edu
D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D003657:Decision Making; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans