This year marks the 35th anniversary of the introduction of the Yacoub operation and the concept of valve-preserving restorative operations for aneurysms of the ascending aorta and root, in 1982. This has aroused a fair amount of debate and controversy coupled with refinements and experience. We here summarise some of these issues.
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Yacoub, M., Aguib, H., & Afifi, A. (2019). The yacoub operation. In Surgical Management of Aortic Pathology: Current Fundamentals for the Clinical Management of Aortic Disease (pp. 749–756). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4874-7_52
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