Young patients who have undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease have shown excellent long-term survival, the majority without the need for additional surgery two decades later.

Awareness of the clinical significance of thoracic aortic ... root replacement is required. Reduction aortoplasty has been superseded largely by interposition graft replacement. The standard ...

Duchess International Hospital, Lagos, has successfully performed open-heart surgery ... performed an aortic root replacement for an unusually large (8cm) aneurysm (dilatation) of the ascending ...

Syphilitic aortitis, resulting in aortic root dilation and severe aortic valve ... of severity of aortic regurgitation during the procedure. If the catheter is positioned too close to the aortic ...

Without surgery, mortality rates within 2 weeks ... Aortic regurgitation: Acute aortic regurgitation can result from dilation of the aortic root. This may cause acute left heart failure with ...