[Open aortic valvuloplasty in surgical treatment of associated heart diseases].

The article presents indications to surgical correction of aortal stenosis and its variants in patients with rheumatic diseases combined with a lesion of other valves of the heart. The possibility to fulfill valve-saving plastic operations on the stenosed aortal valve was shown in 110 operations. The results obtained proved advantages of plastic operations over prostheses of the stenosed aortas without calcinosis universalis.