Aortic root reconstruction with homograft in bacterial endocarditis

Almdahl, S.M.; Lie, M.; Dahl, P.E.; Sørlie, D.

Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening Tidsskrift for Praktisk Medicin Ny Raekke 115(19): 2390-2391

1995


ISSN/ISBN: 0029-2001
PMID: 7667855
Document Number: 447497
We describe successful use of respectively an aortic and a pulmonary homograft as total root replacement in two patients with extensive aortic valve endocarditis. At follow-up 18 months after operation both patients were doing well and echocardiography demonstrated excellent graft function with only trivial aortic regurgitation.

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