%0 Journal Article
%T Aortic Annulus Enlargement: Early and Long-Terms Results
%A Ali Refatllari
%A Ermal Likaj
%A Laureta Dibra
%A Saimir Kuci
%A Selman Dumani
%A Vera Beca
%J Archive of "Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences".
%D 2017
%R 10.3889/oamjms.2017.006
%X Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) is a common occurrence in aortic valve surgery. Even the discussions about the impact of this phenomenon on the results of aortic valve surgery, the management of this problem remain one of the main topics in this kind of surgery. One of the ways of a solution is aortic annulus enlargement. The main topic of this study is to evaluate the early and longterm results of this technique in our country
%K Aortic valve
%K heart valve prothesis
%K aortic valve replacement
%K aortic annulus enlargement
%K patient prothesis mismatch
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5320902/