Aortic valve repair

Aortic valve repair

Aortic valve repair is a surgical procedure used to correct some aortic valve disorders as an alternative to aortic valve replacement. Aortic valve repair is performed less often and is more technically difficult than mitral valve repair.There are two surcgical techniques of aortic-valve repair:
* The Reimplantation-Technique (David-Procedure)
* The Remodeling-Technique (Yacoub-Procedure)

ee also

* Cardiac surgery
* Mitral valve repair

References

External links

* [http://www.mitralvalverepair.org Mitral Valve Repair at The Mount Sinai Hospital]



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