Preprocedural computed tomography planning for surgical aortic valve replacement

CONCLUSIONS: Applying CT sizing to SAVR led to improved valve size selection, less prosthesis-patient mismatch and less interoperator variability. CT sizing for SAVR could also be used to predict prosthesis-patient mismatch before SAVR and identify patients who need aortic root enlargement.PMID:38382704 | DOI:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2024.02.017

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - February 21, 2024 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Atsushi Okada Erik Beckmann Erick E Rocher Miho Fukui Cheng Wang Asa Phichaphop Hideki Koike Kiahltone R Thao Andrew Willett Evan Walser-Kuntz Larissa I Stanberry Maurice Enriquez-Sarano John R Lesser Benjamin Sun Robert J Steffen Paul Sorajja Jo ão L Ca Source Type: research