Tailor-made approach for quadricuspid aortic valve repair.
We describe the successful repair of a quadricuspid aortic valve in a 64-year-old man after attempted tricuspidization via detachment of a commissure of the accessory cusp failed. Bicuspidization via detachment of another commissure was successful. Quadricuspid aortic valve repair by bicuspidization, which surgically transforms 3 cusps into 1, may be a simple and reproducible technique if tricuspidization repair has failed.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Okayama, Japan.
Takeshi
T
Shimamoto
Tatsuhiko
T
Komiya
Takeshi
T
Maruo
Genichi
G
Sakaguchi
D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D058385:Cardiac Valve Annuloplasty / Q000379:methods*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome
Aortic valve; Cardiac surgical procedures; Cardiac valve annuloplasty; Echocardiography; Heart defects; congenital; transesophageal