Autograft Mitral Valve Replacement: A New Technique

Abstract

We describe a new technique wherein we have used the Ionescu Ross Wooler stent for housing the pulmonary autograft. We believe that this technique is easy and reproducible and offers many advantages over the previously described techniques.

Keywords

pulmonary autograft - ross operation - rheumatic heart disease - mitral valve replacement

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