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Impact of Suture Techniques for Aortic Valve Replacement on Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch [1]

Submitted by erobinson [2] on Fri, 2020-03-13 14:33

Suture techniques were compared for prosthesis-patient mismatch among groups who underwent aortic valve replacement and had a small annulus. Nonpledget mattress sutures performed better than pledget mattress sutures and figure-of-8 nonpledget sutures.

Source name: 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Resource link: 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.09.012 [3]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Cardiac [4]
Author(s): 
Hyo-Hyun Kim, Sak Lee, Hyun-Chel Joo, Jung-Hwan Kim, Young-Nam Youn, Kyung-Jong Yoo, Seung-Hyun Lee
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference: 
Aortic valve disease [5]
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/impact-suture-techniques-aortic-valve-replacement-prosthesis-patient-mismatch

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[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/impact-suture-techniques-aortic-valve-replacement-prosthesis-patient-mismatch [2] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/erobinson [3] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.09.012 [4] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/cardiac [5] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy2018/aortic-valve-disease