This Article Abstract Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Bach, D. S. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Bach, D. S.

Choice of prosthetic heart valves:update for the next generation

^* Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

View larger version (30K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Freedom from all valve-related complications for tissue and mechanical prostheses (from Veterans Affairs trial [3], reprinted with permission from the American College of Cardiology Foundation). Morbidity was composed predominantly of late structural failure among patients with a bioprosthesis and cumulative occurrence of major hemorrhage among patients with a mechanical prosthesis. Freedom from all valve-related complications for tissue and mechanical prostheses was indistinguishable at 12 years AVR = aortic valve replacement; MVR = mitral valve replacement.