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Repairing the aortic valve is best for children
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 September 2005
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In this review, I will address the problem as to whether children with disease of the aortic valve should undergo repair, or be put forward for the Ross procedure. So as to put this debate in the correct framework, we need to evaluate all the options for aortic valvar disease. These include not only the Ross procedure, involving the insertion of a pulmonary autograft, and valvar repair, but also the option of replacing the valve with a biological or mechanical prosthesis.
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- PART 4: SURGICAL REPAIR OF ARTERIAL VALVES
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- Cardiology in the Young , Volume 15 , Supplement S1: Controversies Concerning the Ventriculo-Arterial Junctions and Other Topics , February 2005 , pp. 122 - 124
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- © 2005 Cambridge University Press
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