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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vol 6, 347-349, Copyright © 1992 by European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery

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An appraisal of patch enlargement of the small aortic annulus in 33 patients undergoing aortic valve replacement

S Nakano, H Matsuda, Y Shimazaki, K Taniguchi, M Kaneko, T Ueda, T Mori and Y Kawashima
First Department of Surgery, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.

To avoid the problem of valve prosthesis/patient mismatch in the late postoperative period, we have adopted patch enlargement of the small aortic annulus in 33 patients having undergone aortic valve replacement since 1975, when the aortic annulus could not accept a large enough prosthesis. The mean age was 40 years, including 2 children aged 4. The technique of patch enlargement utilized was Nicks' method wherein the incision does not extend onto the mitral leaflet. In 31 adult patients, the aortic annulus before enlargement ranged in diameter from 18 to 24 mm with an average of 20.8 mm. After enlargement, the diameter of the annulus was 25.0 mm on average. In 2 children, the mean diameter of the annulus was enlarged from 16.5 mm to 20.5 mm. There were 2 early deaths in the initial series and 2 late deaths. Patch enlargement of the small aortic annulus is a simple, safe, and effective adjunct permitting the insertion of a valve one or two sizes larger than that which could be accommodated by the native annulus.

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