AORTIC VALVE REPAIR

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ETIOLOGY

INDICATION FOR SURGERY

TECHNIQUES

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ETIOLOGY OF AORTIC REGURGITATION

 

Infective Endocarditis of the Aortic valve with cusp vegetation

Senile degenerative calcified aortic stenosis
Calcification penetrates the cusps and the commirssures are not fused

Degenerative aortic valve mixed disease (excised) with cusp calcification

Rheumatic aortic stenosis

Rheumatic aortic valve mixed disease (excised) with fish-mouth narrow rigid orifice 

Impacts of annulo-aortic ectasia:
a Aortic regurgitation
b acute dissection typeA
​ c aortic rupture