Aortic Valve Heart Surgery

Aortic Valve Procedure

 

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The choice of the prosthesis is an important point discussed with the patient according to his age and the ratio benefit/drawback of both option: Mechanical prosthesis with excellent long term durability but the need of anti-coagulation for life or Bioprosthesis without anticoagulation but the risk of reoperation after 12 years due to the deterioration of the valve.

Aortic valve repair is nearly exclusively limited to patients with aortic regurgitation (AR) without a component of stenosis. Patients considered for repair are generally young who wish to avoid anticoagulation and would be expected to outlive a tissue valve should replacement be considered. In order to perform this operation, the cusps must be thin and flexible without calcifications. Most repairs result in downsizing the effective orifice area in order to increase coaptation with the available cusp area. There is a resultant increase in aortic valve gradient and this must be anticipated when evaluating patients preoperatively

Aortic Valve repair techniques

Different techniques are appropriate according to the lesion of the aortic valve and the mechanism of the regurgitation:

• Commissure plasty / re-suspension in case of annulus dilation
• Plication sutures of the leaflet in case of leaflet prolaps
• Pericardium patch implantation to repair the raphe in bicuspid valve or a perforation.

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Aortic Valve Repair Update [PDF, 1.07 MB]

 

When aortic valve regurgitation is associated with an aortic root aneurysm, aortic valve repair may be associated with a valve sparing aortic root replacement, especially using the remodeling technique.

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