Aortic Valve Surgery: Fix the Valve or Use a New One?

Ilias P Doulamis; Athanasios Rempakos; Eric W Etchill; Alexandros Briasoulis

doi:10.3390/jcm11164844

Aortic Valve Surgery: Fix the Valve or Use a New One?

J Clin Med. 2022 Aug 18;11(16):4844. doi: 10.3390/jcm11164844.

Authors

Ilias P Doulamis¹, Athanasios Rempakos², Eric W Etchill¹, Alexandros Briasoulis^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
² Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Section of Heart Failure and Transplantation, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.

Abstract

Surgical replacement of the diseased aortic valve (SAVR) has been implemented for over half a century as the surgery of choice to prolong the lifespan of this population of patients [...].

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.