Patient Characteristics
Between 2007 and 2017, 54 patients underwent aortic root replacement
with coronary reimplantation using cryopreserved valved aortic
homograft. Baseline patient characteristics are listed in Table
1 . There was no significant difference in baseline characteristics
between resident/junior attending cases and senior attending cases. Mean
age was 63.7 years (range 30-84 years) and 11% were female. Two
patients (3.7%) were in extremis and taken to the operating room
emergently. Nine (16.7%) were in NYHA III and 17 (31.5%) were in NYHA
IV prior to the operation. Five patients (9.3%) had new
atrioventricular nodal dysfunction including complete heart block. The
most common infective agents were Streptococcus viridans(24.1%), Staphylococcus aureus (22.2%), Staphylococcus
epidermidis (13.0%), and Enterococcus species (13.0%).