The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 4 , Pages 848-859 , April 2010

Are stentless valves hemodynamically superior to stented valves? Long-term follow-up of a randomized trial comparing Carpentier–Edwards pericardial valve with the Toronto Stentless Porcine Valve

Read at the Eighty-eighth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 10–14, 2008.

Received 7 May 2008 ,Revised 8 March 2009 ,Accepted 27 April 2009.

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 Disclosures: None.

 Supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

PII: S0022-5223(09)01401-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.04.067

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 4 , Pages 848-859 , April 2010