… from prosthetic valve endocarditis) is essentially the same for mechanical prostheses and …
The Carpentier-Edwards stentless porcine bioprosthesis has a Dacrofi cloth sewing ring and a …

… heart valve replacements with Hancock II porcine bioprostheses. … II and 6 tricuspid
bioprostheses, with concomitant different … Kaplan-Meier freedom from prosthetic valve endocarditis …

… valve replacement operations with porcine bioprostheses … The altered durability of porcine
bioprostheses has been … ) (4 of 7) and for prosthetic valve endocarditis (1 of 7). The remainder …

… bioprosthetic valves. Since there is no agreement on the optimal valve prosthetic choice in
the setting of infective endocarditis… of bioprosthesis failure and endocarditis recurrence. There …

… Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Prosthetic valve endocarditis developed in a total of 135 …
Estimates of freedom from prosthetic valve endocarditis in the AVR subgroup at 5, 10, and …

… leak resulting from prosthetic valve endocarditis is included as prosthetic valve … -Edwards
supraannular porcine bioprosthesis has afforded our patients a low incidence of valve-related …

… with mechanical biopros¬ thetic valves.5 Since the experience at the NHLBI included a large
number of patients with both mechanical and bioprosthetic valves, we compared the risk of …

… Aortic valve replacement with stentless glutaraldehyde-fixed aortic porcine bioprosthesis …
infective endocarditis with destruction of the porcine leaflets and multiple distant abscesses. …

… For aortic valve replacement, bioprostheses were implanted more frequently than … of
patients undergoing valve replacement surgery for active IE, bioprosthetic valve replacement was …

… valve insufficiency (AVI) and a large vegetative lesion on the aortic valve consistent with
aortic valve endocarditis… systolic pressure gradient across the aortic valve was 64 mm Hg. Left …