Tailor-made approach for quadricuspid aortic valve repair. (May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shimamoto, Takeshi; Komiya, Tatsuhiko; Maruo, Takeshi; Sakaguchi, Genichi
• Is Part Of: Asian cardiovascular & thoracic annals. Volume 22:Number 4(2014)
• Page Start: 472
• Page End: 474
• Publication Date: 2014-05
• Subjects: Aortic valve -- Cardiac surgical procedures -- Cardiac valve annuloplasty -- Echocardiography -- transesophageal -- Heart defects -- congenital; Heart -- Diseases -- Asia -- Periodicals; Heart -- Diseases -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Heart -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Heart -- Surgery -- Asia -- Periodicals; Heart -- Surgery -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Heart -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Asia -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Chest -- Surgery -- Periodicals; 617.412
• DOI: 10.1177/0218492313475671
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0218-4923

Abstract

We describe the successful repair of a quadricuspid aortic valve in a 64-year-old man after attempted tricuspidization via detachment of a commissure of the accessory cusp failed. Bicuspidization via detachment of another commissure was successful. Quadricuspid aortic valve repair by bicuspidization, which surgically transforms 3 cusps into 1, may be a simple and reproducible technique if tricuspidization repair has failed.