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• Aortic root surgery in the United States: a report from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons database.

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• Aortic valve repair: easy and reproducible?

  Schäfers HJ. Schäfers HJ. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Jan;149(1):129-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.09.022. Epub 2014 Sep 18. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015. PMID: 25300884 No abstract available.
• Rationale and results of the Stanford modification of the David V reimplantation technique for valve-sparing aortic root replacement.

  Miller DC. Miller DC. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Jan;149(1):112-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.08.077. Epub 2014 Sep 17. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015. PMID: 25308121 No abstract available.
• Predictors of early and medium-term outcome of 200 consecutive aortic valve and root repairs.

  Jasinski MJ, Gocol R, Malinowski M, Hudziak D, Duraj P, Deja MA. Jasinski MJ, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Jan;149(1):123-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.08.057. Epub 2014 Sep 16. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015. PMID: 25439785