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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:1101-1102
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Aortic valve replacement dilemma: mechanical or biological prosthesis?

Aldo Cannata, MD, Claudio Francesco Russo, MD, Corrado Taglieri, MD

Angelo De Gasperis Department of Cardiac Surgery Niguarda Cà Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy

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To the Editor:

The selection of the appropriate prosthesis for aortic valve replacement (AVR) is still open to debate in the case of patients in the sixth and seventh decades of life. Recently Brown and colleagues,1Go from Mayo Clinic, reported in the Journal on an interesting retrospective study about this topic. By means of patient matching according to clinical features, they observed in their population a survival advantage after aortic valve replacement . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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