Title : Use of rapid deployment aortic valve prosthesis and
patch reconstruction in a complex endocarditis.
Antonio Piperata1* MD, Tomaso
Bottio1* MD, PhD, Martina Avesani MD, Giulio
Folino1 MD, Ermanno Bellanti1 MD,
Gino Gerosa1, MD.
1Department of Cardiology, Thoracic, Vascular, and
Public Health Sciences, University of Padua, via N. Giustiniani, 2,
35128 Padova, Italy
*The first two authors equally contributed.
Short title: Rapid deployment in endocarditis
Corresponding Author: Tomaso Bottio,
Via Giustiniani, 2
35100
Padova
Italy
Phone: +39 0498212428
+39 335328307
E-mail:tomaso.bottio@unipd.it
Word count : 1141
Total number of figures: 2