Aortic root enlargement: Just do it

Sarah Yousef; Ibrahim Sultan

doi:10.1111/jocs.16638

Aortic root enlargement: Just do it

J Card Surg. 2022 Aug;37(8):2395-2396. doi: 10.1111/jocs.16638. Epub 2022 May 28.

Authors

Sarah Yousef¹, Ibrahim Sultan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

PMID: 35643854
DOI: 10.1111/jocs.16638

Abstract

Aortic root enlargement (ARE) can be an important adjunct for aortic valve replacement (AVR) in patients with small annuli, but incremental morbidity of this procedure is not well understood.

Keywords: AVR; Manougian; SAVR; aortic root enlargement; aortic valve.

MeSH terms

Aorta / diagnostic imaging
Aorta / surgery
Aortic Valve / diagnostic imaging
Aortic Valve / surgery
Aortic Valve Stenosis* / surgery
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation* / methods
Heart Valve Prosthesis*
Humans
Retrospective Studies
Treatment Outcome