How-I-Do-It: Aortic Annular Enlargement - Are the Nicks and Manouguian Obsolete?

Hypoplasia of the aortic root : The problem of aortic valve replacement

Rowan Nicks, T. B. Cartmill, L. Bernstein · Thorax · 1970 · 341 citations · Full text

Medicine, Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery +12

Patch enlargement of the aortic valve ring by extending the aortic incision into the anterior mitral leaflet

S. Manouguian, W. Seybold-Epting · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 1979 · 315 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery +11

Surgical Enlargement of the Aortic Root Does Not Increase the Operative Risk of Aortic Valve Replacement

Rodolfo V. Rocha, Cedric Manlhiot, Christopher M. Feindel et al. · Circulation · 2017 · 87 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery +14

A novel simple technique to enlarge the aortic annulus by two valve sizes

Bo Yang · JTCVS Techniques · 2020 · 73 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery +14

Early outcomes of the Y-incision technique to enlarge the aortic annulus 3 to 4 valve sizes

Bo Yang, Corina Ghita, Alexander Makkinejad et al. · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 2022 · 54 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery +16