Native Aortic valve cusp for closure of VSD with Aortic valve replacement in cases of Severe Aortic Regurgitation and Ventricular Septal Defect.

Dr Akhilesh Arumalla; Prof RV Kumar

Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

Native Aortic valve cusp for closure of VSD with Aortic valve replacement in cases of Severe Aortic Regurgitation and Ventricular Septal Defect.

Dr Akhilesh Arumalla, Prof Rv Kumar

Abstract :

Aortic Regurgitation associated with 5–10% of Ventricular septal defects.Repair of the aortic valve is always the first choice in such cases.However sometimes aotic valve replacement becomes mandatory due to size and quality of cusps.Usually pericardial patch autologous or bovine,dacron or PTFE patches are used for closure of Ventricular septal defects in such cases.Here we describe a technique of using the autologous native aortic valve itself to close the ventricular septal defect.The advantages of the technique is patients own tissue is being used,no other chamber need to be opened and both procedure can be done satisfactorily through the same incision.