Michel Pompeu Sá, Jef Van den Eynde, Xander Jacquemyn, Panagiotis Tasoudis, Ozgun Erten, Connor McDonald, Alexander Weymann, Arjang Ruhparwar, Marie-Annick Clavel, Philippe Pibarot, John Calhoon, Basel Ramlawi
In the era of lifetime management of aortic valve disease, the Ross procedure emerged as an alternative to prosthetic heart valves for young adults; however, more long-term data are warranted. We performed a meta-analysis of reconstructed time-to-event data to compare long-term outcomes between the Ross procedure and mechanical aortic valve replacement (mAVR) in young adults. PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE and GoogleScholar were searched for studies comparing Ross procedure with mAVR that reported mortality/survival rates and/or reoperation rates accompanied by at least one Kaplan-Meier curve for any of the outcomes...
June 21, 2022: Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine