Cardiac Valve Allografts: Science and Practice

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Standards and technical guidelines for heart valve banking....Pages 1-4
An international survey of allograft banks....Pages 5-9
Homograft viability, assessment and significance....Pages 11-21
Human heart cold ischemia and its effect on post-cryopreservation viability of heart valves....Pages 23-28
Effects of storage temperature and fetal calf serum on the endothelium of porcine aortic valves: Functional and microscopic evaluation....Pages 29-46
Pre-implantation viability of cryopreserved valves prepared by the Green Lane Technique....Pages 47-57
The anatomic and physiological properties of the semilunar valves....Pages 59-68
Antigenicity of human cardiac valve allografts in vitro....Pages 69-74
Immunology of homograft valves....Pages 75-85
Immunogenicity of human cardiac valve allografts....Pages 87-98
Immune response and calcification of allografts....Pages 99-108
The allograft valve in aortic valve replacement and in transplanted patients....Pages 109-122
Allograft conduit wall calcification in a model of chronic arterial graft rejection....Pages 123-133
Immunosuppression in allograft valve surgery. A study on inbred rat model....Pages 135-141
Clinical results of freehand subcoronary aortic valve and root replacement with cryopreserved homografts (allografts)....Pages 143-159
Results of allograft aortic root replacement in children....Pages 161-170
Extended aortic root replacement with pulmonary autograft....Pages 171-178
Pulmonary autograft: “Valve of choice” for aortic infective endocarditis?....Pages 179-185
Treatment of aortic valve endocarditis with the Ross operation....Pages 187-199
Techniques of reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract at Ross operation....Pages 201-205
Allograft vs. prosthetic aortic valve replacement for active infective endocarditis....Pages 207-215
Allograft aortic root surgery. The infected aortic root....Pages 217-226
Cryopreserved aortic homografts for mycotic aneurysms and infected arterial grafts....Pages 227-241
The use of aortic allografts for surgical management of mycotic infections and aneurysms of the thoracic aorta....Pages 243-251
Large-caliber arterial allografts....Pages 253-262
Allograft reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract: Techniques and results....Pages 263-274
Outcome of pulmonary and aortic allografts for reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract in congenital cardiac surgery....Pages 275-280
Long-term results of allograft conduits in the pulmonary circulation....Pages 281-294
Techniques for repair of tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia using homografts — The Rotterdam Experience....Pages 295-300
Use of allografts in the primary repair of Truncus arteriosus in early infancy and replacement of previous conduits revisited....Pages 301-306
Orthotopic and heterotopic implantation of cryopreserved semilunar valves in the pulmonary circulation....Pages 307-314
Intermediate-term performance of CryoLife cryopreserved heart valve allografts....Pages 315-324
Replacement of the mitral and tricuspid valves with aortic and pulmonary valve allografts....Pages 325-331
Mitral valve homograft....Pages 333-347
Mitral valve allografts in the mitral position....Pages 349-356
Immunology and fate of mitral allografts. What are the operative technical options and prerequisites for durability?....Pages 357-360
Unstented live tricuspid and mitral valve allografts....Pages 361-379
Concluding remarks and prospects....Pages 381-385