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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;65:1795-1796
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

How to Do It

A Surgical Method for Selecting Appropriate Size of Graft in Aortic Root Remodeling

Kiyofumi Morishita, MD, PhDa, Tomio Abe, MD, PhDa, Johji Fukada, MDa, Hiroki Sato, MD, PhDa, Chikara Shiiku, MDa

a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Accepted for publication December 8, 1997.

Address reprint requests to Dr Morishita, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South 1, West 16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Japan 060

We describe a surgical technique for selecting the appropriate size of a tube graft in aortic root remodeling procedures. As the technique has a geometric basis, we believe that our method is more accurate in determining the graft size than others.




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