Biomechanical Evaluation of a Personalized External Aortic Root Support applied in the Ross Procedure KU Leuven
In several cardiac interventions, pulmonary arterial tissue is exposed to systemic conditions. One of these procedures is the Ross procedure, which replaces a diseased aortic valve with the patient’s own pulmonary valve. A common complication hereby is the dilatation of this pulmonary autograft. Still, not all autografts fail and the decisive factor for autograft failure is not known. Several reinforcement strategies have been designed to ...