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An Increased Incidence of Conduit Endocarditis in Patients Receiving Bovine Jugular Vein Grafts Compared to Cryopreserved Homograft for Right Ventricular.

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1 An Increased Incidence of Conduit Endocarditis in Patients Receiving Bovine Jugular Vein Grafts Compared to Cryopreserved Homograft for Right Ventricular Outflow Reconstruction  Shinya Ugaki, MD, PhD, Jennifer Rutledge, MD, FRCPC, Mohammed Al Aklabi, MD, FRCSC, David B. Ross, MD, Ian Adatia, MBChB, Ivan M. Rebeyka, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages (January 2015) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Overall actuarial freedom from reoperation in patients undergoing right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with bovine jugular vein grafts (BJVG [solid line]) or cryopreserved homografts (dotted line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Actuarial freedom from reoperation for patients aged (A) less than 3 years and (B) more than 3 years at operation undergoing right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with bovine jugular vein grafts (BJVG [solid lines]) or homografts (dotted lines). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

4 Fig 3 Actuarial freedom from reoperation in patients aged more than 3 years at operation undergoing right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with bovine jugular vein grafts (BJVG) with endocarditis (solid line) or without endocarditis (dashed line) compared with homografts (dotted line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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