Steffen Pfeiffer of Paracelsus Medical University, Nurnberg, Germany, delivers a talk on sutureless prostheses and their role in minimally invasive aortic valve replacement. Dr. Pfeiffer discusses the benefits of using sutureless valves, and argues that minimally invasive surgery with a sutureless valve is an important alternative to catheter-based techniques.
This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. This content is published with the permission of SCTS. Please click here for information on the 2016 SCTS Annual Meeting.
