Ross Procedure
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about managing the left subclavian artery...
This prospective single-surgeon series reports 30-year outcomes after the Ross procedure in 212 consecutive patients operated on between 1990 and 2004. The median age was 34 years; 108 patients underwent...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Bart P. van Putte, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, and the Amsterdam University...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...
This propensity-matched study from the Montreal Heart Institute Ross Registry examined sex-based differences in outcomes following the Ross procedure. Among 816 adults undergoing full-root pulmonary autograft replacement (2011 to 2025),...
An 8-year-old male (24 kg) presented with intermittent fever for 45 days. Echocardiography demonstrated infective endocarditis of a bicuspid aortic valve with multiple vegetations (largest 8 × 6 mm), severe...
A 32-year-old man presented with shortness of breath, exertional fatigue, and chest pain. He underwent a Ross procedure in early childhood for rheumatic aortic valve disease, during which a 22...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed decision memo regarding the national coverage analysis for transcatheter aortic valve replacement...
In this session, cardiothoracic surgery experts gathered to discuss transaxillary valve surgery, options to avoid patients-prosthesis mismatch, aortic valve replacement (AVR), and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). These presentations were...
Autograft dilation and neo-aortic regurgitation remain key concerns after the Ross procedure. This meta-analysis of 526 patients shows complete Dacron reinforcement yields comparable outcomes to unsupported or partially supported techniques...
This video presents a Ross procedure with internal and external reduction annuloplasty using autologous tissue rings. The patient was a 41-year-old previously healthy male who presented after a syncopal episode....
The EACTS recently released an expert consensus statement on the Ross procedure in adult patients, highlighting the renewed focus in this area due to increasing evidence of excellent long-term outcomes....





