The figure-of-8 aortic valve suturing technique optimizes the effective orifice area of a small aortic annulus-an ex vivo study.
Hiroyuki SaishoCarina KuhlmannMichael ScharfschwerdtReuben JeganathanNajla SadatTim SchallerAnas AboudStephan EnsmingerBuntaro FujitaPublished in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2022)
The F8 technique with the PME21 achieved a similar EOA as the 1 size larger PME23 using NE after AE. These results suggest that the F8 technique may be an effective surgical modification to improve the haemodynamic result in a small annulus without additional AE.