1. Five-Year Follow-up After Heart Valve Replacement With the CarboMedics Bileaflet Prosthesis 
Suzanne M. Rödler, MD, Anton Moritz, MD, Wolfgang Schreiner, MD, Adelheid End, MD, Peter Dubsky, MD, Ernst Wolner, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 63, Issue 4, Pages (April 1997)
DOI: /S (97)

2. Fig. 1
Causes of valve disease. Sixteen patients (2.7%) had been reoperated on because of paravalvular leakage or endocarditis of mechanical prostheses; 48 patients (8.2%) had previous bioprostheses.
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3. Fig. 2
Distribution of valve sizes implanted in both the aortic and mitral position. Most frequently used sizes were 27 mm and 29 mm in the mitral and 21 mm and 23 mm in the aortic position.
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4. Fig. 3
Survival with and without operative mortality after 5 years of follow-up. 3.1%/pt/yr refers to the linearized incidence of occurrence.
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5. Fig. 4
Survival curves. Upper curve shows the survival probability of age- and sex-matched Austrian population. Lower curve shows survival 5 years after heart operation. 2.3%/pt/yr refers to the linearized incidence of occurrence.
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6. Fig. 5
Survival according to valve site. 2.6%/pt/yr refers to the linearized incidence of occurrence.
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7. Fig. 6
Event-free and yearly incidence of thromboembolic and anticoagulant-related hemorrhage. 1.6%/pt/yr refers to the linearized incidence of occurrence.
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8. Fig. 7
New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class status before and 1 and 4 years after operation. There was no significant change in the profile of functional class after the initial improvement. The vertical axis depicts the percentage of patients in each functional class during the specific time periods.
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