Rapid Deployment Aortic Valve Replacement: Excellent Results and Increased Effective Orifice Areas

Rahmanian and colleagues retrospectively compared surgical outcomes and hemodynamics between rapid deployment aortic valve replacement (RDAVR) and standard AVR. The authors conclude that RDAVR required shorter aortic cross-clamp times and allowed for larger prostheses, achieving better hemodynamics than standard AVR. The two procedures had similar rates of postoperative complications.