| Two Cases of Aortic
Root Replacement Using Anatomic Ventriculoaortic Junction Suture |
(Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Chugoku Rosai
Hospital, Cerebro-Cardiovascular Center, Kure, Japan)
| Saihou Hayashi |
Jun Kawamoto |
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For aortic root replacement in annuloaortic
ectasia (AAE), an artificial prosthesis is commonly sutured to
the aortic annuls (hemodynamic ventriculoaortic junction). In
this case report, suturing was conducted using the anatomic ventriculoaortic
junction along with full-thickness-suturing. The first case was
a 28-year-old man and the second, his 31-year-old brother. The
former showed AAE (maximum diameter, 120mm) with 4° AR and the
latter, AAE (maximum diameter, 54mm) without AR. The present
method is simple due to the flat suture line and is quite reliable
owing to full-thickness-suturing.
Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 29: 53-56 (2000) |
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