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Two Decades of Valve-Sparing Root Reimplantation in Tricuspid Aortic Valve: Impact of Aortic Regurgitation and Cusp Repair

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Submitted by

Catherine Joyce

Source

Source Name: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezaa427

Author(s)

Saadallah Tamer, Stefano Mastrobuoni, Guillaume Lemaire, Jama Jahanyar, Emiliano Navarra, Alain Poncelet, Parla Astarci, Gebrine El Khoury, Laurent de Kerchove

Tamer et al. analyzed the influence of preoperative aortic regurgitation (AR) on the necessity of cusp repair during valve-sparing reimplantation (VSR). They focused on patients with tricuspid aortic valves (TAV) and evaluated the impact of AR and cusp repair on long-term outcomes.