Comparison of aortic root replacement in patients with Marfan syndrome.

  • Alexander Bernhardt
  • Hendrik Treede
  • Meike Rybczynski
  • Sara Sheikhzadeh
  • Jan Felix Kersten
  • Thomas Meinertz
  • Yskert Von Kodolitsch
  • Hermann Reichenspurner

Abstract

Although the aortic-valve-sparing (AVS) reimplantation technique according to David has shown favorable durability results in mid-term and long-term studies, composite valve grafting (CVG) according to Bentall is still considered the standard procedure.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number5
ISSN1010-7940
Publication statusPublished - 2011
pubmed 21435894