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Outcomes of aortic valve repair: early results from the German Aortic Valve Registry.

Evaldas GirdauskasJohannes PetersenÜmniye BalabanEva HerrmannTimm BauerAndreas BeckmannRaffi BekeredjianStephan EnsmingerChristian FrerkerHelge MöllmannThomas WaltherSabine Bleiziffer
Published in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2022)
AV repair/AV-sparing root surgery is performed in 5% of patients requiring AV surgery in Germany. Our data demonstrate very satisfactory periprocedural and 1-year survival and cardiac event-free survival after AV repair surgery. Implementation of specific surgical techniques during the index procedure seems to result in comparable outcomes.
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