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A Randomized Multicenter Trial of Minimally Invasive Rapid Deployment Versus Conventional Full Sternotomy Aortic Valve Replacement

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Submitted by

Tom C. Nguyen

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(14)01834-7/abstract

Author(s)

Michael A. Borger, MD, PhDemail, Vadim Moustafine, MD, Lenard Conradi, MD, Christoph Knosalla, MD, PhD, Markus Richter, MD, PhD, Denis R. Merk, MD, Torsten Doenst, MD, PhD, Robert Hammerschmidt, MD, Hendrik Treede, MD, PhD, Pascal Dohmen, MD, PhD, Justus T. Strauch, MD

Randomized multicenter trial comparing rapid-deployment aortic valve prosthesis versus conventional aortic valve surgery. The study found that rapid-deploymenbt prosthesis had reduced cross clamp time, lower transvalvular gradient, and less patient-prosthesis mismatch.