Surgeons always hope for the best one: Valve Sparing or Valve Replacement Surgery: A new trend in cardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery are gaining great importance since now a days most of the cardiac surgeries are gaining of great importance due to the high rate of prevalence of cardiac diseases among the patients. One among the greatest development in this field is the valve sparing or valve replacement surgery.

Valve sparing or valve replacement surgery is generally done to treat the aneurysm of aortic roots. Aneurysm refer to the excessive swelling in the aortic roots. This surgical procedures helps to avoid the long term use of anticoagulant and proves more promising. And it helps in reducing the chance of occurring of the stroke and endocarditis.

If the patients aortic valve is completely diseased and cannot be used further after the surgical procedure the bioprosthetic valve can be used. It is one of the very tough aortic surgery procedure.

There exist two method of incision for this aortic surgery, it includes

Traditional method: 8-12 inch incision for the transplantation surgery.

Modern method: Minimally invasive skin incision

The aorta is cut just above the openings where the coronary arteries are attached to the aortic root. The diseased part of the aortic valve are removed and the sutures are made.

Generally Herger’s dilators are used depending upon the patients body size and the left ventricle outflow tract.