Over the last few years, there has been renewed interest in aortic valve replacement with a living pulmonary autograft. The reason is simple: studies have shown that long-term survival after the Ross procedure mirrors that of the general population,1 results that have not yet been achieved with prosthetic aortic valves. [...]
Jahanyar, J., El Khoury, G., & de Kerchove, L. (2022). The Ross Procedure: A Rekindled Relationship. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 114(3), 871-872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.05.093 (Original work published 2022)