**6.2 Plastic repair of the aortic valve**

Neocuspidization (plastic repair of aortic valve) either into a bicuspid or tricuspid aortic valve, as the case may be, with or without prosthetic material (patient's native leaflet tissue, glutaraldehyde-treated autologous pericardium, non-treated autologous pericardium, expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) membrane, decellularized xenogenic tissue, glutaraldehyde-treated bovine pericardium, or untreated equine

pericardium) and cusp augmentation to restore the aortic valve close to its normal structure and function has been used successfully [21–24].
