… autograft replacement of the diseased aortic valve has not been widely practiced due to
concerns regarding late autograft … There is no premature valve failure in the young, and we …

… aortic valve and root replacement with autografts vs. allografts in young adult patients with
congenital aortic valve … No age-dependency was observed for autograft structural valve failure …

… In the more contemporary series, freedom from reoperations at 8 years ranges from 90%
to 82% for failure of the autograft, and from 94% to 88% for failure of the allograft 3, 4. The …

… As far as we can determine, there have been no late deaths clearly related to degenerative
failure of the autograft valve, but one patient certainly died of endocarditis on the …

… degeneration occurred in 19 homografts (2.2% per patient-year), whereas there was no
definite instance of primary tissue failure among the pulmonary autografts. This experience …

… pulmonary autograft procedure [17] restricting our indications initially to aortic valve disease
… there has never been an acute cusp failure nor evidence of progressive failure over the 24 …

… disease appear to have an increased incidence of recurrence and repair failure. Although
suture … of aortic valve repair is similar to that of pulmonary autograft, or homograft replacement …

… accumulating clinical evidence16·17indicate that autograft pulmonary valves grow with the
child and, thus, possibly together with a lack of tissue failure, makes them particularly suitable …

… progressive aortic valve insufficiency, 1 for a technical error at … at the time of autograft
replacement of their aortic valve at our … aortic valve disease with aortic stenosis and only 1+ aortic …

… aortic valve allograft degeneration has prompted the consideration of nonviable aUografts or
xenografts, pulmonary autografts, or … Degeneration and failure of cryopreserved aortic valve …