The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 53, 907-908, Copyright © 1992 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Cardiac surgical aids: heart cup and stentless valve holder
D Roux, G Fournial, Y Glock and P Puel
Departement de Chirurgie Cardiovasculaire, CHU de Rangueil, Toulouse, France.
We present two new cardiac surgery instruments that we perfected in our
department. The heart cup holds the donor's heart vertically within a cold
saline solution, thus allowing adequate preparation of the heart for
transplantation, as well as the excision of valvular homografts from the
recipient's heart. The stentless valve holder is used to hold valvular
homografts to ease both their preparation and implantation.