Aortic root enlargement: Just do it.

Published in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2022)

Aortic root enlargement (ARE) can be an important adjunct for aortic valve replacement (AVR) in patients with small annuli, but incremental morbidity of this procedure is not well understood.

Keyphrases

aortic valve
aortic valve replacement
aortic stenosis
transcatheter aortic valve implantation
transcatheter aortic valve replacement
left ventricular
aortic dissection
minimally invasive
pulmonary artery
heart failure
ejection fraction