The Ross procedure, also known as pulmonary autograft, is a heart valve replacement operation used to treat severe aortic valve disease, including in children and young adults with a bicuspid aortic valve. The diseased aortic valve is removed and replaced with the patient's own healthy pulmonary valve, and the pulmonary valve is in turn reconstructed using a valve taken from a cadaver or a stentless animal-tissue valve. Compared with a mechanical valve replacement, it avoids the need for blood-thinning medication, has favorable blood flow characteristics, allows the valve to grow with a child, and carries a lower risk of endocarditis.
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Who performed the first Ross procedure and when?
Donald Ross at Guy's Hospital on June 8 1967.
The first pulmonary autotransplant, the operation now called the Ross procedure, was performed by Dr. Donald Ross at Guy's Hospital on June 8, 1967. It replaces a diseased aortic valve with the patient's own pulmonary valve.
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first pulmonary autotransplant was performed by Dr. Donald Ross at Guy's Hospital on June 8, 1967
Ross procedure (Wikipedia)
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The Ross procedure, also known as pulmonary autograft, is a heart valve replacement operation to treat severe aortic valve disease, such as in children and young adults with a bicuspid aortic valve.
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