Treatment of aortic insufficiency with a descending aortic valvular homograft: 19-year follow-up and historical perspective.

This case report and 19-year follow-up concerns a patient with aortic insufficiency who was one of the first to undergo surgical treatment with a descending aortic valvular homograft. The historical perspective afforded here may stimulate ideas concerning advances in future methods and materials to be used in cardiac surgery.