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Easy Technique for Placing Anchoring Sutures for Aortic Root Reimplantation

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

For reprint information contact: Hitoshi Ogino, MD, Tel: 81 66 833 5012, Fax: 81 66 872 7486, Email: hogino{at}hsp.ncvc.go.jp, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Cardiovascular Center, 5-7-1 Fujishirodai, Suita, Osaka 565-8565, Japan.

In the aortic valve-sparing reimplantation technique, insertion of the anchoring sutures beneath the valve is a crucial but difficult step because the spared aortic cusps obscure the field of view. We present a novel and easy method of placing these anchoring stitches with good exposure of the subvalvular tissue.