Late Outcomes Following Freestyle Versus Homograft Aortic Root Replacement. Results From a Prospective Randomized Trial

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 368-376

  El Hamamsy, Ismail ^a   Clark, Lucy ^a   Stevens, Louis M ^b   Sarang, Zubair ^a   Melina, Giovanni ^a   Takkenberg, Johanna J M ^c   Yacoub, Magdi H ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

homografts; structural valve degeneration; survival; xenografts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC ROOT SURGERY; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREESTYLE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74049160696     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.09.030     Document Type: Article

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