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Ross Procedure in Children: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Analysis

Friday, January 20, 2023

Submitted by

Cameron Lind

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.06.043

Author(s)

Georgina Rowe, MD, George Gill, MD, M. Mujeeb Zubair, MD, Amy Roach, MD,Natalia Egorova, PhD, Dominic Emerson, MD, Robert H. Habib, PhD,Michael E. Bowdish, MD, Joanna Chikwe, MD, and Richard W. Kim, MD

This analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database aimed to evaluate clinical outcomes of the Ross procedure in children from 2000 to 2018. It was found that, in a sample size of 2,805 children, the Ross procedure was being performed with low mortality throughout North America.