Michael Z L Zhu, Edward Buratto, Damien M Wu, Shuta Ishigami, Antonia Schulz, Christian P Brizard, Igor E Konstantinov
When the options of aortic valve repair or the Ross procedure are not feasible or have been exhausted, mechanical aortic valve replacement (AVR) may provide a reliable and structurally durable alternative, but with the limitations of long-term anticoagulation, thrombosis risk and lack of valve growth potential. In this article, we review the longitudinal outcomes of mechanical AVR in children in our institution and compare them to those recently reported by others. From 1978 to 2020, 62 patients underwent mechanical AVR at a median age of 12...
2024: Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual