The authors introduce their technique of using the Freestyle xenograft root as an alternative to homograft in the Ross procedure.
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Aorta
October 16, 2024
October 15, 2024
The authors present the case of a 39-year-old woman with a diagnosis of Marfan syndrome, a mutation found on FBN1, and aortic root dilatation. She underwent an aortic valve reimplantation using the T. David-V Stanford modification.
October 14, 2024
This video demonstrates an 82-year-old male undergoing an aortic root replacement with a bioprosthesis.
September 26, 2024
The first stage of surgical management for a case of acute on chronic type A and type B aortic dissection involves using the Bentall procedure with total arch replacement. This was performed using an indigenously made conduit using the Sree Chitra valve and a continuous suture technique.
August 26, 2024
This video demonstrates a triangular resection of the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve through an upper hemisternotomy and the roof of the left atrium.
July 8, 2024
The dogma to avoid paravalvular leak was challenged with the use of only nine pairs of sutures without pledget. This video shows a technical variation with pledgets between the pairs of sutures.
July 8, 2024
The patient in this video is a fit seventy-six-year-old man. Twenty-five years previously, he had a Ross procedure, later presenting with aortic root dilation.
July 5, 2024
Another video in Dr. Tristan Yan’s series demonstrates one way to arrest the heart in a mini-access aortic root replacement.
July 1, 2024
This is the case of a sixty-eight-year-old man who had an acute aortic dissection 10 years previously and had quite a small prosthetic aortic tube grafted onto a relatively large distal aorta.
July 1, 2024
A video demonstrating aortic root replacement after complications from previous procedures.