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Correspondence to Professor Marjan Jahangiri, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. George’s Hospital, London SW17 OQT, UK; marjan.jahangiri{at}stgeorges.nhs.uk Minimally invasive aortic valve ...

Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) occurs when an implanted prosthetic valve is too small for the patient; severe PPM is defined as an indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) <0.65 cm 2 /m 2 following ...

Background—Surgeons traditionally avoid the use of “small” aortic prostheses because of the potential for residual left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and persistent transvalvular gradients.