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The Ross procedure is a double-valve operation using the patient’s pulmonary valve as an autograft to replace the damaged aortic valve, with pulmonary donor tissue used to reconstruct the continuity of right ventricular outflow and the pulmonary artery. It is most often performed in children, with good long-term results, and several recent studies — including a 2018 systematic review and meta-analysis — found clear benefits for the surgical procedure in selected young and middle-aged patients. “This study shows that the Ross procedure is an operation with potentially significant value...

A recent study has revealed that out of 789 professional athletes infected with COVID-19, only five of them had inflammatory heart disease.

Michael Dwyer/Associated Press A study showed five out of 789 professional athletes diagnosed with COVID-19 also experienced inflammatory heart disease.  A study from 15 doctors published by  JAMA Cardiology (via ESPN's Kevin Seifert) looked at cardiac testing between May and October 2020 for COVID-19-positive athletes from the NFL, NBA, WNBA, NHL, MLB and MLS. The results showed that five (0.6 percent of the total number) "ultimately had cardiac magnetic resonance imaging findings suggesting inflammatory heart disease." Three had myocarditis, and another two had pericarditis. As people ...

email article 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...

Doctors in Italy, who had to cut off her gangrenous fingers, called her case a 'severe manifestation' of coronavirus. She is believed to have suffered blood clots as a side effect of her infection.