Comparison of pulmonary and aortic root and cusp dimensions in normal adults using computed tomography: potential implications for Ross procedure planning
Matija Jelenc, Blaž Jelenc, Sara Habjan, Karen B Abeln, Peter Fries, Hector I Michelena, Hans Joachim Schäfers · 2024
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Matija Jelenc and co-authors measure heart valve roots in healthy adults in this 2024 study. A heart operation swaps a failed aortic valve with the patient's own lung valve. The swap lasts only if the lung valve's shape is kept sound, yet normal lung root data were scarce.
The team read more than five hundred chest scans and kept fifty with clear views of both roots. Lung and aortic leaflets matched in size, but the lung root's shape set its leaflets lower. The lung ring also stretched and shrank across each heartbeat by a wide share. The authors say fixing the moved valve to aortic, not lung, sizes should keep its leaflets in true form.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Matija Jelenc, Blaž Jelenc, Sara Habjan, Karen B Abeln, Peter Fries, Hector I Michelena, Hans Joachim Schäfers |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |