Up to seven years of experience with the Ross procedure in patients >60 years of age
Claudia Schmidtke, MDa,
J. F. Matthias Bechtel, MDa,
Axel Noetzold, MDa and
Hans-Hinrich Sievers, MD, FETCSa
a Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

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Figure 1 Individual values of maximal (max) pressure gradients across the pulmonary valve (PV-PG) in relation to the follow-up interval (group A: r = 0.274, p = 0.176; group B: r = 0.391, p < 0.001). Group A = patients 60 years of age; group B = patients <60 years of age.
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