Aug 2026
Strategic aortic root enlargement for patients with a small aortic annulus in the era of transcatheter aortic valve-in-surgical aortic valve procedures.
A sternum-sparing, minimally invasive AVR program using the Stonehenge technique with a TAV-in-SAV-oriented strategy for annular and root enlargement and STJ enlargement with tilt minimization may improve future TAV-in-SAV feasibility while preserving the surgical AVR benefits.
Masataka Yamazaki, Yorihiko Matsumoto, Hirofumi Haida et al.
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