Surgical reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract—The clock is still ticking

The optimal device for heart valve replacement is yet to be developed. If this is certainly true for adult patients with acquired pathologies, the need for better materials is even more pressing in the setting of congenital heart disease, where any valve replacement activates a ticking clock towards the next procedure. In this issue of the Journal of Cardiac Surgery, Selcuk et al.1 report their single-center experience with the BioIntegral...