Revue médicale de Liège
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Revue médicale de Liège · Jan 2000
[Place of the Ross procedure (pulmonary autograft) in aortic valve surgery].
The pulmonary autograft operation consists of an aortic replacement using the autologous pulmonary valve. The pulmonary valve is substituted by a cryopreserved pulmonary homograft. ⋯ The pulmonary autograft has superb hemodynamic features and very low thrombogenicity. The report of a selected observation offers the occasion of defining the current indications of this operation in aortic valve surgery.