The 20-year survival rate was more than 90% in a single-center study of 252 people who had undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease, according to new data presented by Varun Shetty, MBBS, from the Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Bengaluru, India, at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) annual meeting in Los Angeles. With the Ross procedure, the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the patient's own healthy pulmonary valve and the pulmonary valve is replaced with donor tissue. The intricate operation can take twice as long as mechanical aortic valve replacements.
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