NEONATAL PULMONARY AUTOGRAFT IMPLANTATION FOR CARDIAC TUMOR INVOLVINGAORTIC-VALVE

We diagnosed in a 4-day-old neonate a cardiac tumor involving the left atrium, left atrioventricular junction, left ventricular outflow trac t, and aortic valve with severe subvalvular and valvular aortic stenos is. The critical involvement of the aortic valve and the scarcity of n eonatal cardiac donors led us to perform a successful replacement of t he aortic root with a pulmonary autograft, using a very small homograf t for the native pulmonary valve (Ross operation).