The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 133, Issue 3 , Pages 614-622.e2 , March 2007

Prospective randomized comparison of CarboMedics and St. Jude Medical bileaflet mechanical heart valve prostheses: Ten-year follow-up

Read at the Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Philadelphia, Pa, April 29-May 3, 2006.

Received 22 May 2006 ,Revised 22 June 2006 ,Accepted 25 August 2006.

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    Kaplan–Meier plots: overall patient survival (A), freedom from valve-related death (B), and patient survival for AVR only (C) and MVR only (D). CM, CarboMedics; SJM, St. Jude Medical; CI, confidence i

    Kaplan–Meier plots: overall patient survival (A), freedom from valve-related death (B), and patient survival for AVR only (C) and MVR only (D). CM, CarboMedics; SJM, St. Jude Medical; CI, confidence interval; AVR, aortic valve replacement; MVR, mitral valve replacement.

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    Kaplan–Meier plots: freedom from thromboembolism for all study patients (A), for AVR only (B), for MVR only (C), and by position of valve replacement (D). Abbreviation definitions as in Figure 1.

    Kaplan–Meier plots: freedom from thromboembolism for all study patients (A), for AVR only (B), for MVR only (C), and by position of valve replacement (D). Abbreviation definitions as in Figure 1.

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    Kaplan-Meier plots: bleeding event-free survival for all study patients (A), for AVR only (B), for MVR only (C), and by position of valve replacement (D). Abbreviation definitions as in Figure 1.

    Kaplan-Meier plots: bleeding event-free survival for all study patients (A), for AVR only (B), for MVR only (C), and by position of valve replacement (D). Abbreviation definitions as in Figure 1.

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    Complication-free survival by study group (A) and position of valve replacement (B). Abbreviation definitions as in Figure 1.

    Complication-free survival by study group (A) and position of valve replacement (B). Abbreviation definitions as in Figure 1.

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    NYHA class by year of follow-up. NYHA, New York Heart Association.

    NYHA class by year of follow-up. NYHA, New York Heart Association.

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    Flow chart showing study recruitment and randomization. CM, CarboMedics; SJM, St. Jude Medical.

    Flow chart showing study recruitment and randomization. CM, CarboMedics; SJM, St. Jude Medical.

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    Anticoagulation control. INR, international normalized ratio; SJM, St. Jude Medical; CM, CarboMedics; AVR, aortic valve replacement; MVR, mitral valve replacement; DVR, double valve replacement.

    Anticoagulation control. INR, international normalized ratio; SJM, St. Jude Medical; CM, CarboMedics; AVR, aortic valve replacement; MVR, mitral valve replacement; DVR, double valve replacement.

 St. Jude Medical and Sulzer-CarboMedics provided financial support for a clerical assistant for the duration of this study. None of the authors received any financial benefit from St. Jude Medical or Sulzer CarboMedics Inc, and these companies did not participate in the design, conduct, or analysis of the trial.

PII: S0022-5223(06)01888-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.08.075

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 133, Issue 3 , Pages 614-622.e2 , March 2007

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