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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:661-662
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Update

Update 2001: Localized supravalvar aortic stenosis: a new technique for repair

Nicholas Kang, MBBSa, Graham R. Nunn, FRACSa, David R. Andrews, FRACSa, Richard B. Chard, FRACSa

a The New Children’s Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

Address reprint requests to Dr Chard, The New Children’s Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Parramatta, New South Wales 2124, Australia
e-mail: chardric@netspace.net.au

As Originally Published in 1993: Localized Supravalvar Aortic Stenosis: A New Technique for Repair by Richard B. Chard, FRACS, and Timothy B. Cartmill, FRACS. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

The deformity in supravalvar aortic stenosis includes generalized thickening of the tissues of the aortic root with a fairly normal sized aortic valve ring. The thickened tissues may obstruct the origins of the left and right coronary arteries. We have repaired 2 cases with complete excision of the stenosing ring below the level of the commissures of the aortic valve into the sinuses, to the level of the left and right coronary arteries.

Updated in 2001:

We now have long-term follow-up data for 3 patients who have had supravalvar aortic stenosis (AS) corrected by the method described in 1993 [1] which entails (1) complete excision of the stenosing ring below the level of the commissures of the aortic valve into the sinuses, to the level of the left and right coronary . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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