Under-use of the Ross operation--a lost opportunity
Lancet
.
2014 Aug 16;384(9943):559-560.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61090-4.
Authors
Magdi H Yacoub
1
,
Ismail El-Hamamsy
2
,
Hans-Hinrich Sievers
3
,
Blase A Carabello
4
,
Robert O Bonow
5
,
Paul Stelzer
4
,
Francisco D A da Costa
6
,
Hans J Schäfers
7
,
Peter Skillington
8
,
Efstratios I Charitos
3
,
Giovanni Battista Luciani
9
,
Johanna J M Takkenberg
10
Affiliations
1
Magdi Yacoub Institute, Imperial College, London UB9 6JH, UK. Electronic address: m.yacoub@imperial.ac.uk.
2
Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada.
3
University Hospital Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
4
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
5
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
6
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Santa Casa de Curitiba, Brazil.
7
Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany.
8
The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
9
University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
10
Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
PMID:
25131967
DOI:
10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61090-4
No abstract available
MeSH terms
Aortic Valve / surgery*
Heart Valve Diseases / epidemiology
Heart Valve Diseases / surgery*
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / methods*
Humans
Pulmonary Valve / transplantation*
Quality of Life