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Sutureless aortic valve replacement simplifies the procedure, avoids a redo Bentall operation, and saves time for concomitant surgeries in a heavily calcified infected aortic homograft.
Sutureless valve implantation is a feasible and time-saving technique for aortic valve replacement in patients with heavily calcified infected aortic homografts.
We report a case of aortic valve replacement (AVR) with a sutureless valve in an infected degenerated heavily calcified aortic homograft. This technique simplifies this technical challenge, allows rapid AVR in a heavily calcified aortic root, and avoids performing a redo Bentall operation with its known difficulties and saves time for concomitant heart procedures.
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Attia et al. (2017) studied this question. Sutureless aortic valve replacement simplifies the procedure, avoids a redo Bentall operation, and saves time for concomitant surgeries in a heavily calcified infected aortic homograft.
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