The Ross procedure replaces a diseased aortic valve with another of the patient's own heart valves, the pulmonic valve. The pulmonic valve is in turn replaced by a homograft valve (a pulmonic valve donated by another person). The benefits of this procedure are that the patient does not need to use blood thinners, has less chance of infection and receives a valve that works like a normal human valve.
Darlene Smith Vaughn Starnes did Adam Picks Ross procedure. Contact Adam.
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