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Outcomes in Aortic and Mitral Valve Replacement With Intervalvular Fibrous Body Reconstruction

Monday, March 2, 2015

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Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

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Alberto Forteza, Jorge Centeno, Victor Ospina, Inés García Lunar, Violeta Sánchez, Enrique Pérez, María Jesús López, José Cortina

This retrospective review of outcomes after reconstruction of the intervalvular fibrous trigone combined with aortic and mitral valve replacement  tracked patients who were operated upon for either severe endocarditis (n=26) or severe calcification (n=14) involving the trigone.  The David Technique for reconstruction was used, and the operative mortality for these complex operations was 15% and 7%, respectively.  Despite high operative risk and complexity, the authors from Madrid show that this operation can be performed with respectable morbidity and mortality rates.

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