Rastelli procedure

Rastelli procedure
SpecialtyCardiology

The Rastelli procedure is an open heart surgical procedure developed by Italian physician and cardiac surgery researcher Giancarlo Rastelli, in 1967 at the Mayo Clinic, and involves using a pulmonary or aortic homograft conduit to relieve pulmonary obstruction in double outlet right ventricle with pulmonary stenosis.

On July 26, 1968, the first successful surgery was carried out at the Mayo Clinic by Dr. Robert Wallace.

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