Performance of CryoValve SG Decellularized Pulmonary Allografts Compared With Standard Cryopreserved Allografts

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 849-855

  Konuma, Takeshi ^a   Devaney, Eric J ^a   Bove, Edward L ^a   Gelehrter, Sarah ^a   Hirsch, Jennifer C ^a   Tavakkol, Zarry ^a   Ohye, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RETRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VALVE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 68849104432     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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