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Rapid Deployment Aortic Valve Replacement: Excellent Results and Increased Effective Orifice Areas

Monday, January 8, 2018

Submitted by

Claire Vernon

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.07.047

Author(s)

Parwis B. Rahmanian, Süreyya Kaya, Kaveh Eghbalzadeh, Hruy Menghesha, Navid Madershahian, Thorsten Wahlers

Rahmanian and colleagues retrospectively compared surgical outcomes and hemodynamics between rapid deployment aortic valve replacement (RDAVR) and standard AVR. The authors conclude that RDAVR required shorter aortic cross-clamp times and allowed for larger prostheses, achieving better hemodynamics than standard AVR. The two procedures had similar rates of postoperative complications.