Ross procedure
id:
ross-procedure-225-1806947
title:
Ross procedure
text:
The Ross procedure, also known as pulmonary autograft, is a heart valve replacement operation to treat severe aortic valve disease, such as in children and young adults with a bicuspid aortic valve. It involves removing the diseased aortic valve, situated at the exit of the left side of the heart, and replacing it with the person's own healthy pulmonary valve (autograft), removed from the exit of the heart's right side. To reconstruct the right sided exit, a pulmonary valve from a cadaver (homog
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Type of cardiac surgical operation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_procedure
date created:
2007-01-06T06:39:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T17:52:26Z
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image:
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13
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