Under-use of the Ross operation--a lost opportunity

Affiliations

¹ Magdi Yacoub Institute, Imperial College, London UB9 6JH, UK. Electronic address: m.yacoub@imperial.ac.uk.
² Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada.
³ University Hospital Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
⁴ Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Santa Casa de Curitiba, Brazil.
⁷ Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany.
⁸ The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁹ University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Magdi H Yacoub et al. Lancet. 2014.

. 2014 Aug 16;384(9943):559-560.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61090-4.

¹ Magdi Yacoub Institute, Imperial College, London UB9 6JH, UK. Electronic address: m.yacoub@imperial.ac.uk.
² Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada.
³ University Hospital Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
⁴ Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Santa Casa de Curitiba, Brazil.
⁷ Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany.
⁸ The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁹ University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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The Ross procedure: Underuse or under-comprehension?
Nappi F, Spadaccio C, Chello M, Acar C. Nappi F, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 May;149(5):1463-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.01.021. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015. PMID: 25983256 No abstract available.