Sutureless aortic valve replacement as an alternative treatment for patients belonging to the “gray zone” between transcatheter aortic valve implantation and conventional surgery: A propensity-matched, multicenter analysis

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1010-1018

  D'Onofrio, Augusto ^a   Messina, Antonio ^b   Lorusso, Roberto ^c   Alfieri, Ottavio R ^d   Fusari, Melissa ^e   Rubino, Paolo ^f   Rinaldi, Mauro ^g   Di Bartolomeo, Roberto ^h   Glauber, Mattia ⁱ   Troise, Giovanni ^b   Gerosa, Gino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Poliambulanza Hospital   (Italy)

^c Italy   (Italy)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f Cardiology Division   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

ⁱ G PASQUINUCCI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROSCORE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; PARAVALVULAR LEAK; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; SUTURELESS AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; VERY ELDERLY; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; ITALY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUTURING METHOD; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85027956367     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.07.040     Document Type: Article

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