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Choosing between percutaneous valves and sutureless surgical valves for aortic valve replacement requires an understanding of their complementary strengths and limitations.

Echocardiography and fluoroscopy are the main techniques for prosthetic heart valve (PHV) evaluation, but because of specific limitations they may not identify the morphological substrate or the ...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is now an established treatment option for elderly patients with severe ...

The noncylindrical nature of this bioprosthesis means that the expected dimensions at the level of the aortic annulus will vary widely, depending on the final deployed position of the device.

Services The Microscopy and Cell Analysis Core provides three complimentary high-end services to research and clinical investigators. Electron microscopy The core has both scanning electron ...

Objective: To investigate the effect of preoperative and postoperative systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) values on early prognosis in patients with nonfunctional mitral regurgitation etiology ...

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Background—The pulmonary autograft (Ross) operation is an attractive treatment for aortic valve disease, but hemodynamic follow-up is not well defined. Methods and Results—One hundred thirty-two ...