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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Modified Ross Procedure for a Young Woman with a Root Abscess on a Bicuspid Aortic Valve: Report of a Case

  AUTHORS: Yusuke Misumi, Tomoyuki Fujita, Yusuke Shimahara, Hiroki Hata, Soichiro Kitamura, Junjiro Kobayashi

  KEYWORDS: Ross Procedure, Endocarditis, Homograft, Bicuspid Aortic Valve

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, Vol.5 No.8, August 17, 2015

  ABSTRACT: A 19-year-old woman with a bicuspid aortic valve was admitted because of active infective endocarditis with a root abscess. Four weeks of antibiotic therapy achieved negative blood cultures and normalized inflammatory signs; however, echocardiography revealed severe aortic regurgitation through an abscess cavity located at the root. The modified Ross procedure, in which the pulmonary autograft was reinforced with a prosthetic graft to prevent postoperative annular dilation, was successfully performed. The postoperative clinical course was uneventful, and echocardiography performed at 1 year showed trivial aortic regurgitation. Selection of homograft may benefit young woman who wishes to bear children, and covering pulmonary autograft by a prosthetic graft in order to prevent annular dilatation of autograft in patient with bicuspid aortic valve, may be allowed only under negative infection sign.