In this wide-ranging overview, current president of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Joseph Bavaria, MD, discusses the principles of bicuspid aortic valve repair in the context of aortic insufficiency (repair and preserve the native cusp and restore the normal three-dimensional geometry of the root or functional aortic annulus) and offers a detailed examination of current approaches to BAV repair and valve-sparing root reimplantation.

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