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Acquired Lesions of the Aortic Valve

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Abstract

Surgery on the aortic valve is the second most common cardiac procedure in the adults. Aortic valve disease in the adults usually manifests as aortic valve stenosis, aortic regurgitation, or as infective aortic valve endocarditis. In this chapter, the natural history and pathophysiology of aortic valve disease in the adults are briefly discussed. Important aspects of the surgical anatomy and diagnostic procedures used to guide patient management are presented. Surgical techniques to repair or replace the aortic valve with either mechanical (mechanical aortic valves) or biological material (stented, stentless, and sutureless biological valves as well as homograft and autograft procedures) are presented in detail as well as their outcomes.

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    Martin Misfeld MD, PhD

  2. Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University of Lübeck, Lubeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    Efstratios I. Charitos MD, PhD & Hans-Hinrich Sievers MD

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Misfeld, M., Charitos, E.I., Sievers, HH. (2017). Acquired Lesions of the Aortic Valve. In: Ziemer, G., Haverich, A. (eds) Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52672-9_24

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