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Clinical and echocardiographic follow-up was 100% complete. Clinical and echocardiographic follow-up averaged 24.4\u2009\u00b1\u20099.3 and \u200915.1\u00a0\u00b1\u2009\u00a08.3\u00a0months, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Mean cardiopulmonary and cross-clamp times were 105\u2009\u00b1\u200915 (72\u2013127) and 86\u2009\u00b1\u200915 (51\u2013113) min, respectively. Early and late mortality was 0%, with no incidents\u00a0of endocarditis or cerebrovascular events during the follow-up. Two patients were re-operated during the follow-up, one due recurrent aortic regurgitation (12\u00a0months after the first operation) yielding a freedom from reoperation due to AR at 1\u00a0year and 3\u00a0years of 100%\u2009\u00b1\u20090% and 93.3%\u2009\u00b1\u20095.7%, respectively. Based on the latest echocardiogram, five\u00a0patients had either none or trivial AR, six had mild AR, and three had mild-to-moderate AR.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The early clinical and echocardiographic results after using a complete external Dacron band are promising; however, more data and longer follow-up are needed to determine its role in annular management during aortic valve repair.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s11748-021-01695-1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,20]],"date-time":"2021-09-20T12:04:38Z","timestamp":1632139478000},"page":"329-336","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Early results after aortic annuloplasty with a complete external Dacron band"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"70","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5648-7688","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"John-Peder Escobar","family":"Kvitting","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jan Otto","family":"Beitnes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Runar","family":"Lundblad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"1695_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"351","DOI":"10.1093\/ejcts\/ezz033","volume":"56","author":"L de Kerchove","year":"2019","unstructured":"de Kerchove L, Mastrobuoni S, Froede L, et al. 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