Rapid Deployment Aortic Valve Replacement: Excellent Results and Increased Effective Orifice Areas [1]
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.