Aortic Valve Reconstruction: Patient Advantages for Keeping Your Own Heart Valve Tissue

https://www.Heart-Valve-Surgery.com - Now, more than ever, leading cardiac surgeons are using new techniques to help patients keep their own heart valve tissue when treating aortic stenosis (a narrow valve) and aortic regurgitation (a leaky valve).

To explore the advantages of these new and/or modified approaches to aortic valve reconstruction, we interviewed Dr. Chris Malaisrie, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. During his extraordinary career, Dr. Malaisrie has performed thousands of aortic valve repair and aortic valve replacement operations.

Important patient questions addressed by Dr. Malaisrie in this video include:

1. What are the patient benefits of aortic valve repair compared to aortic valve replacement? Durability? Blood thinner use (anticoagulants, Coumadin, warfarin)? Infection?

2. What is aortic valve regurgitation (a leaking aortic valve)? What does aortic valve prolapse look like?

3. What surgical techniques can Dr. Malaisrie use to repair an aortic valve? Free margin plication? Prolapse resection? Aortic valve annuloplasty?

4. What should patients know about the history of the Ross Procedure? Why has the Ross Procedure become such a busy part of Dr. Malaisrie's practice? What are the main Ross Procedure benefits specific to infective endocarditis, thromboembolism, anticoagulation and durability?

5. What should patients know about the association of aortic valve disease and aortic aneurysms?

6. How is Dr. Malaisrie using "valve-sparing" aortic root replacement techniques to help patients keep their own aortic valve tissue while replacing an aortic root aneurysm?

To see 50+ patient testimonials and a surgeon biography for Dr. Chris Malaisrie, please visit https://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/surgeons/dr-S.+Chris-Malaisrie-Chicago-Illinois.php. To schedule an appointment or get a second opinion, please contact Dr. Malaisrie at (888) 535-6197.

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