Journal article
The Cor-Knot device may serve as an ideal radiopaque marker of the annular plane for future valve-in-valve implantation.
- Czerny M Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: martin.czerny@usz.ch.
- Sündermann S Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Falk V Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 2014-10-06
Published in:
- The Annals of thoracic surgery. - 2014
English
A 55-year-old man underwent aortic root and ascending aortic replacement with a 27-mm Freestyle porcine neoroot with reimplantation of the coronary ostia as well as ascending aortic replacement with a 28-mm straight Dacron graft. A knot-tying device consisting of radiopaque Titan clips (Cor-Knot device, LSI Solutions, Inc, Victor, NY) for anchoring the porcine neoroot was used.
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- DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.04.046
- PMID 25282227
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- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/252005
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