Table 1. Different techniques for rheumatic aortic valve repair.

For post inflammatory rheumatic affection/thickening:

Peeling (decortication)

Shaving (thinning)

For associated rheumatic aortic stenosis:

Commissurotomy

Decalcification

For pure rheumatic aortic incompetence:

Free edge plication

Subcommissural suture plication

Augmentation

Of the body

Of the free edge

Single cusp replacement

Of all cusps (Neocuspidization-Ozaki Technique)