Risk Factors for Prosthesis Failure in Pulmonary Valve Replacement Rahel Zubairi, MD, Sadia Malik, MD, Robert D.B. Jaquiss, MD, Michiaki Imamura, MD, PhD, Jeff Gossett, MS, W. Robert Morrow, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 91, Issue 2, Pages 561-565 (February 2011) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.07.111 Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Number of valve types shown by year of implantation. (BP = bovine pericardial valve; PH = pulmonary homograft; XV = xenograft porcine valve; XVC = xenograft porcine valve in a Dacron conduit.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 91, 561-565DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.07.111) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Overall freedom from prosthetic valve failure is shown for all valve types. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 91, 561-565DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.07.111) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Freedom from prosthetic valve failure is shown by valve type. ((BP = pericardial bioprosthesis; PH = pulmonary homograft; XV = porcine valve; XVC = porcine valve in a Dacron conduit.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 91, 561-565DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.07.111) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Freedom from prosthetic valve failure is shown for homografts (red line) vs heterograft (blue line) of all types. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 91, 561-565DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.07.111) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 5 Freedom from prosthetic valve failure by age < 5 years (red line), 5 to 10 years (blue line), and > 10 years (green line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 91, 561-565DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.07.111) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 6 Early (solid line) and late-phase (dashed line) prosthetic valve failure is shown. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 91, 561-565DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.07.111) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions