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In experienced hands, the Ross procedure was associated with favorable short- and long-term outcomes in young patients requiring aortic valve replacement (AVR), according to a retrospective cohort study.
Survival was 95.1% at 10 years 88.5% at 15 years among more than 1,400 adults undergoing the double-valve procedure at highly specialized centers, Mostafa Mokhles, MD, PhD, of Utrecht University Medical Center in The Netherlands, and colleagues reported. The Ross procedure continues to be the only living-valve alternative in young and middle-aged patients with a reported survival that compares with the general population well into the second postoperative decade, the group wrote in