A Modified Free-hand Technique for Homograft Aortic Valve Replacement
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Journal of Cardiac Surgery
- Vol. 2 (1S) , 193-197
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jocs.1987.2.1s.193
Abstract
A modified technique for trimming and inserting the aortic homograft valve is described. This altered free-hand technique is designed to maintain normal spacial geometry of the valve apparatus in order to reduce the risk of early homograft valve incompetence.Keywords
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