The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 437-442 , March 2002

The Ross procedure is the procedure of choice for congenital aortic valve disease

Received 18 May 2001 ,Revised 27 July 2001 ,Accepted 7 August 2001.

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☆ Read at the Eighty-first Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 6-9, 2001.

☆☆ Address for reprints: Zohair Al-Halees, MD, Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, PO Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia (Email: alhalees@ kfshrc.edu.sa ).

PII: S0022-5223(02)97868-2

doi: 10.1067/mtc.2002.119705

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 437-442 , March 2002

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