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ID Design 2012/DOOEL Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences.

http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2016.098
eISSN: 1857-9655

Case Report

 

 

 

Aortic Annular Enlargement during Aortic Valve Replacement


 

Selman Dumani*, Ermal Likaj, Laureta Dibra, Stavri Llazo, Ali Refatllari


University Hospital Center ”Mother Theresa”, Tirana, Albania


 

Abstract

 

 

In the surgery of aortic valve replacement is always attempted, as much as possible, to implant the larger prosthesis with the mains goals to enhance the potential benefits, to minimise transvalvular gradient, decrease left ventricular size and avoid the phenomenon of patient-prosthesis mismatch. Implantation of an ideal prosthesis often it is not possible, due to a small aortic annulus. A variety of aortic annulus enlargement techniques is reported to avoid patient-prosthesis mismatch. We present the case that has submitted four three times open heart surgery. We used Manouguian technique to enlarge aortic anulus with excellent results during the fourth time of surgery.


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Citation: Dumani S, Likaj E, Dibra L, Llazo S, Refatllari A. Aortic Annular Enlargement during Aortic Valve Replacement. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2016.098
Keywords: AAE-aortic annulus enlargement; Manouguian technique; PPM-patient - prosthesis mismatch; AVR-aortic valve replacement; iEOA-indexed effective orifice area.
*Correspondence: Selman Dumani. University Hospital Center ”Mother Theresa”, Tirana, Albania. E-mail: selmandumani@yahoo.co.uk
Received: 04-Aug-2016; Revised: 20-Aug-2016; Accepted: 24-Aug-2016; Online first: 02-Sep-2016
Copyright: © 2016 Selman Dumani, Ermal Likaj, Laureta Dibra, Stavri Llazo, Ali Refatllari. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

 

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