The management of congenital heart disease has changed dramatically over the last 15
years and continues to evolve at a rapid pace. More than ever before contemporary practice …

Approximately 50 000 valve replacement operations take place in Europe annually and
almost as many valve repair procedures. Previous European guidelines on management of …

OBJECTIVE: We performed a review of a consecutive series of 487 patients undergoing the
Ross operation to identify surgical techniques and clinical parameters that affect outcome …

The purpose of this paper is to review the current literature and practice of the Ross concept
of using the autologous pulmonary valve to replace a diseased aortic valve. The potential …

Pulmonary valve disease constitutes a wide spectrum of conditions. Traditionally,
echocardiography has been the technique of choice for the evaluation of pulmonary and …

BACKGROUND: In the Ross aortic valve replacement (AVR), a pulmonary allograft normally
replaces the autotransplanted pulmonary valve. Despite the Ross advantages vs other AVR …

Objectives Pulmonary homograft dysfunction is a limitation after the Ross procedure.
Decellularized pulmonary homografts can potentially mitigate this complication. The aim of …

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term durability and function of
pulmonary homografts used for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction in the Ross …

Objective: Limited information is available on outcome after autograft aortic valve
replacement, in particular with respect to the durability of the autograft and of the allograft …

Objective To assess allograft function over time after the Ross procedure. Design
Prospective multicentre registry. Setting 10 cardiac surgery departments in Germany and the …