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Vol 11, No 1 (January 24, 2022): Thoracic Aortic Endovascular Solutions II

Heart team approach for comprehensive management of aortic coarctation in the adult

Lee Hafen, William P. Shutze, Srinivasa Potluri, John J. Squiers, J. Michael DiMaio, William T. Brinkman

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Endovascular therapy for patients with heritable thoracic aortic disease

Alice Le Huu, Jacqueline K. Olive, Davut Cekmecelioglu, Subhasis Chatterjee, Hiruni S. Amarasekara, Susan Y. Green, Joseph S. Coselli, Ourania Preventza

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Vol 10, No 6 (November 28, 2021): Thoracic Aortic Endovascular Solutions I

Chronic thoracoabdominal aortic dissection: endovascular options to obliterate the false lumen

Patrick R. Vargo, Jean-Luc Maigrot, Eric E. Roselli

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Vol 10, No 5 (September 29, 2021): Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve

Transcatheter pulmonic valve implantation in adult patients with prior congenital heart surgery

Zachary A. Spigel, Iki Adachi, Ziyad M. Binsalamah, Dhaval Parekh, Athar M. Qureshi

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Transcatheter valve-in-valve implantation for degenerated stentless aortic bioroots

Davut Cekmecelioglu, Ourania Preventza, Kathryn G. Dougherty, Subhasis Chatterjee, Susan Y. Green, Guilherme V. Silva, Jose G. Díez, Joseph S. Coselli

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Hemodynamic outcomes after valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a single-center experience

R. Yazan Kherallah, Srikanth Koneru, Zvonimir Krajcer, Ourania Preventza, Kathryn G. Dougherty, Melissa L. McCormack, Briana T. Costello, Stephanie Coulter, Neil E. Strickman, Juan Carlos Plana Gomez, Ali Mortazavi, Jose G. Díez, James J. Livesay, Joseph S. Coselli, Guilherme V. Silva

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Transapical transcatheter mitral valve implantation in patients with degenerated mitral bioprostheses or failed ring annuloplasty

Alina Zubarevich, Marcin Szczechowicz, Konstantin Zhigalov, Philipp Marx, Alexander Lind, Rolf Alexander Jánosi, Tienush Rassaf, Sharaf-Eldin Shehada, Rizwan Malik, Markus Kamler, Matthias Thielmann, Bastian Schmack, Arjang Ruhparwar, Alexander Weymann, Daniel Wendt

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Outcomes after transcatheter valve-in-valve implantation using a balloon-expandable Edwards Sapien valve in patients with degenerated Freestyle aortic bioprosthesis

Christof Burgdorf, Andrijana Vukadinovikj Momchilovska, Bjoern Andrew Remppis

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Access options for transcatheter mitral valve implantation in patients with prior surgical bioprosthesis

Laura Besola, Anson Cheung, Jian Ye, Myriam Akodad, Andrew Chatfield, Gnalini Sathananthan, Robert Moss, John Webb

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Transcatheter valve implantation for degenerated tricuspid bioprosthesis and failed tricuspid ring

Shmuel Chen, Lyle Dershowitz, Isaac George

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Vol 10, No 4 (July 30, 2021): Ross Procedure

Outcomes of reoperations after Ross procedure

Paul Stelzer, Javier Mejia, Elbert Eugene Williams

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Long-term outcomes of the Ross procedure in adults

William H. Ryan, John J. Squiers, Katherine B. Harrington, Tammy Goodenow, Courtney Rawitscher, Justin M. Schaffer, J. Michael DiMaio, William T. Brinkman

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The reinforced full-root technique for the Ross operation: surgical considerations and operative insights

Markus Liebrich, Efstratios I. Charitos, Christoph Dingemann, Detlef Roser, Joerg Seeburger, Wolfgang Hemmer, Vladimir Voth

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Ross operation after failure of aortic valve repair

Karen B. Abeln, Vincent Chauvette, Nancy Poirier, Shunsuke Matsushima, Ismail El-Hamamsy, Hans-Joachim Schäfers

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Vol 10, No 3 (May 31, 2021): Continuous-Flow MCS in End-Stage Heart Failure II

Impact of extra-corporeal life support (ECLS) cannulation strategy on outcome after durable mechanical circulation support system implantation on behalf of durable MCS after ECLS Study Group

Diyar Saeed, Evgenij Potapov, Antonio Loforte, Michiel Morshuis, David Schibilsky, Daniel Zimpfer, Julia Riebandt, Federico Pappalardo, Matteo Attisani, Mauro Rinaldi, Davide Pacini, Assad Haneya, Faiz Ramjankhan, Dirk W. Donker, Ulrich P. Jorde, Wolfgang Otto, Julia Stein, Dmytro Tsyganenko, Ameen Al-Naamani, Radi Wieloch, Rafael Ayala, Jochen Cremer, Michael Borger, Artur Lichtenberg, Jan Gummert

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Development of tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular performance after implantation of centrifugal left ventricular assist devices

Johanna Mulzer, Hristo Krastev, Christoph Hoermandinger, Alexander Meyer, Thomas Haese, Julia Stein, Marcus Müller, Felix Schoenrath, Christoph Knosalla, Christoph Starck, Volkmar Falk, Evgenij Potapov, Jan Knierim

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Computational sentiment analysis of an online left ventricular assist device support forum: positivity predominates

Melissa A. Austin, Abhiraj Saxena, Thomas J. O’Malley, Elizabeth J. Maynes, Henry Moncure, Nathan Ott, H. Todd Massey, Francesco Moscato, Antonio Loforte, John M. Stulak, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili

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Vol 10, No 2 (March 31, 2021): Continuous-Flow MCS in End-Stage Heart Failure I

Sex differences in outcomes following less-invasive left ventricular assist device implantation

Silvia Mariani, Tong Li, Karl Bounader, Dietmar Boethig, Alexandra Schöde, Jasmin S. Hanke, Jana Michaelis, L. Christian Napp, Dominik Berliner, Guenes Dogan, Roberto Lorusso, Axel Haverich, Jan D. Schmitto

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Concomitant cardiac surgery procedures during left ventricular assist device implantation: single-centre experience

Julia Riebandt, Anne Schaefer, Dominik Wiedemann, Thomas Schlöglhofer, Günther Laufer, Sigrid Sandner, Daniel Zimpfer

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Metabolomic profile of patients with left ventricular assist devices: a pilot study

Filippo Consolo, Luigi Barberini, Claudia Fattuoni, Dmitry Grapov, Andrea Montisci, Federico Pappalardo

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Vol 10, No 1 (January 29, 2021): Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement

Transapical off-pump echo-guided mitral valve repair with neochordae implantation mid-term outcomes

Gino Gerosa, Matteo Nadali, Lorenzo Longinotti, Matteo Ponzoni, Raphael Caraffa, Alessandro Fiocco, Nicola Pradegan, Laura Besola, Augusto D’Onofrio, Eleonora Bizzotto, Roberto Bellu, Denas Gentian, Andrea Colli

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Is tri-port totally thoracoscopic surgery for mitral valve replacement a feasible approach?

Kai Liu, Hourong Sun, Biao Wang, Hongliang Ma, Bingbing Ma, Zengshan Ma

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Combining echocardiographic and anatomic variables to predict outcomes of mitral valve repair with the NeoChord procedure

Erica Manzan, Danila Azzolina, Dario Gregori, Eleonora Bizzotto, Andrea Colli, Gino Gerosa

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Long-term outcomes of etiology specific annuloplasty ring repair of ischemic mitral regurgitation

Tomasz A. Timek, Marcin Malinowski, Robert L. Hooker, Jessica L. Parker, Charles L. Willekes, Edward T. Murphy, Theodore Boeve, Stephane Leung, Justin S. Fanning, John C. Heiser

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Vol 9, No 6 (November 27, 2020): Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Transcatheter valve-in-valve implantation in degenerated aortic bioprostheses: are patients with small surgical bioprostheses at higher risk for unfavourable mid-term outcomes?

Clarence Pingpoh, Holger Schroefel, Tanja Franz, Martin Czerny, Maximilian Kreibich, Martin Moser, Christoph Bode, Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Franz-Josef Neumann, Willibald Hochholzer, Matthias Siepe

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Vol 9, No 5 (September 30, 2020): Sutureless and Rapid Deployment Aortic Valve Replacement II

Conduction disorders after aortic valve replacement with rapid-deployment bioprostheses: early occurrence and one-year evolution

Augusto D’Onofrio, Chiara Tessari, Lorenzo Bagozzi, Federico Migliore, Claudia Filippini, Giorgia Cibin, Rita Pesce, Annalisa Francescato, Gino Gerosa

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Conduction disorders after aortic valve replacement: what is the real impact of sutureless and rapid deployment valves?

Paolo Berretta, Luca Montecchiani, Fabio Vagnarelli, Mariano Cefarelli, Jacopo Alfonsi, Carlo Zingaro, Filippo Capestro, Michele D. Pierri, Alessandro D’alfonso, Marco Di Eusanio

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Vol 9, No 4 (July 28, 2020): Sutureless and Rapid Deployment Aortic Valve Replacement I

Sutureless and rapid deployment implantation in bicuspid aortic valve: results from the sutureless and rapid-deployment aortic valve replacement international registry

Antonio Miceli, Paolo Berretta, Antonio Fiore, Martin Andreas, Marco Solinas, Giuseppe Santarpino, Utz Kappert, Martin Misfeld, Carlo Savini, Alberto Albertini, Emmanuel Villa, Kevin Phan, Theodor Fischlein, Bart Meuris, Gianluca Martinelli, Kevin Teoh, Carmelo Mignosa, Malakh Shrestha, Thierry P. Carrel, Tristan D. Yan, Mattia Glauber, Marco Di Eusanio

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Right anterior mini-thoracotomy and sutureless valves: the perfect marriage

Marco Solinas, Giacomo Bianchi, Francesca Chiaramonti, Rafik Margaryan, Enkel Kallushi, Tommaso Gasbarri, Filippo Santarelli, Michele Murzi, Pierandrea Farneti, Alessandro Leone, Simone Simeoni, Egidio Varone, Federica Marchi, Mattia Glauber, Giovanni Concistrè

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Outcome of rapid deployment aortic valves: long-term experience after 700 implants

Iuliana Coti, Thomas Haberl, Sabine Scherzer, Paul Werner, Shiva Shabanian, Alfred Kocher, Guenther Laufer, Martin Andreas

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Vol 9, No 3 (May 29, 2020): Frozen Elephant Trunk

Hybrid arch frozen elephant trunk repair: evidence from the Canadian Thoracic Aortic Collaborative

Maral Ouzounian, Ali Hage, Jennifer Chung, Louis-Mathieu Stevens, Ismail El-Hamamsy, Vincent Chauvette, Francois Dagenais, Andreanne Cartier, Mark Peterson, Alana Harrington, Munir Boodhwani, Ming Guo, John Bozinovski, Stephanie Fox, Linrui Guo, Michael W. A. Chu, on behalf of the Canadian Thoracic Aortic Collaborative

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Renal protective effect of the aortic balloon occlusion technique in total arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk

Bowen Zhang, Yanxiang Liu, Hongwei Guo, Yunfeng Li, Yi Shi, Shenghua Liang, Hong Liu, Xiaogang Sun

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Results of frozen elephant trunk from the international E-vita Open registry

Konstantinos Tsagakis, Davide Pacini, Martin Grabenwöger, Michael A. Borger, Nora Goebel, Wolfgang Hemmer, Alvaro Laranjeira Santos, Thanos Sioris, Kazimierz Widenka, Petar Risteski, Jorge Mascaro, Igor Rudez, Andreas Zierer, Carlos A. Mestres, Arjang Ruhparwar, Roberto Di Bartolomeo, Heinz Jakob

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Is the frozen elephant trunk technique justified for chronic type A aortic dissection in Marfan syndrome?

Yu Chen, Wei-Guo Ma, Jian-Rong Li, Jun Zheng, Yong-Min Liu, Jun-Ming Zhu, Li-Zhong Sun

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Open total arch replacement with trifurcated graft and frozen elephant trunk

Erik Beckmann, Andreas Martens, Wilhelm Korte, Tim Kaufeld, Heike Krueger, Axel Haverich, Malakh Shrestha

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Vol 9, No 2 (March 30, 2020): Total Artificial Heart

Heart transplantation after SynCardia® total artificial heart implantation

Michiel Morshuis, Sebastian V. Rojas, Kavous Hakim-Meibodi, Artyom Razumov, Jan F. Gummert, René Schramm

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The total artificial heart in pediatrics: outcomes in an evolving field

Chet R. Villa, Ryan A. Moore, David L. Morales, Angela Lorts

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The total artificial heart in patients with congenital heart disease

Karthik Thangappan, Awais Ashfaq, Chet Villa, David L. S. Morales

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Vol 9, No 1 (January 29, 2020): Lung Transplantation

The impact of hepatitis C viremic donor lung allograft characteristics on post-transplantation outcomes

Ann E. Woolley, Laura M. Piechura, Hilary J. Goldberg, Steve K. Singh, Antonio Coppolino, Lindsey R. Baden, Hari R. Mallidi

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Vol 8, No 6 (November 29, 2019): Endocarditis

Diagnostic tools in surgically treated patients with infective valve endocarditis

Guenther Kroegh, Khalil Jawad, Piroze Davierwala, Michael Borger, Martin Misfeld

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Surgical options in infective valve endocarditis with neurological complications

Khalil Jawad, Guenther Kroeg, Alex Koziarz, Sven Lehmann, Maja Dieterlen, Stefan Feder, Jens Garbade, Vivek Rao, Michael Borger, Martin Misfeld

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Characteristics and outcomes of patients with right-sided endocarditis undergoing cardiac surgery

Carolyn Weber, Asmae Gassa, Kaveh Eghbalzadeh, Julia Merkle, Ilija Djordjevic, Johanna Maier, Anton Sabashnikov, Antje-Christin Deppe, Elmar W. Kuhn, Parwis B. Rahmanian, Oliver J. Liakopoulos, Thorsten Wahlers

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Aortic valve endocarditis complicated by proximal false aneurysm

Pietro Giorgio Malvindi, Elisa Mikus, Luca Caprili, Giuseppe Santarpino, Vito Margari, Simone Calvi, Giuseppe Nasso, Renato Gregorini, Carmine Carbone, Alberto Albertini, Giuseppe Speziale, Domenico Paparella

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Vol 8, No 5 (September 24, 2019): Type A Intramural Hematoma

Management of malperfusion syndrome in acute type A aortic intramural hematoma

Elizabeth L. Norton, David M. Williams, Karen M. Kim, Xiaoting Wu, Minhaj S. Khaja, Himanshu J. Patel, G. Michael Deeb, Bo Yang

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Vol 8, No 4 (July 01, 2019): Type B Intramural Hematoma and Descending Penetrating Aortic Ulcer

Arch and access vessel complications in penetrating aortic ulcer managed with thoracic endovascular aortic repair

Gabriele Piffaretti, Federico Fontana, Marco Tadiello, Chiara Guttadauro, Filippo Piacentino, Ruth L. Bush, Anna Maria Socrate, Matteo Tozzi

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Vol 8, No 3 (May 01, 2019): Advanced Techniques in Aortic Valve Repair

Aortic valve opening and closure: the clover dynamics

Emmanuel Lansac, Hou-Sen Lim, Yu Shomura, Khee Hiang Lim, Nolan T. Rice, Isabelle Di Centa, Pouya Youssefi, Wolfgang Goetz, Carlos M. G. Duran

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Multimodal imaging of aortic annulus and root geometry after valve sparing root reconstruction

Matthew Valdis, Andrew Thain, Philip M. Jones, Ian Chan, Michael W. A. Chu

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Comparison of Dacron ring and suture annuloplasty for aortic valve repair—a porcine study

Leila Louise Benhassen, Diana Mathilde Ropcke, Mona Sharghbin, Troels Lading, Jens Kæstel Skov, Marcell Juan Tjørnild, Karen Bagger Poulsen, Tommy Bechsgaard, Søren Nielsen Skov, Sten Lyager Nielsen, John Michael Hasenkam

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Vol 8, No 2 (March 30, 2019): Robotic Thoracic Surgery

Extended thoracic lymph node dissection in robotic-assisted minimal invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) for patients with superior mediastinal lymph node metastasis

Sylvia van der Horst, Michiel F. G. de Maat, Pieter C. van der Sluis, Jelle P. Ruurda, Richard van Hillegersberg

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Robotic lobectomy for lung cancer: initial experience of a single institution in Korea

Seha Ahn, Jin Yong Jeong, Hyung Woo Kim, Joong Hyun Ahn, Giyong Noh, Soo Seog Park

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Robot-assisted thoracic surgery in Colombia: a multi-institutional initial experience

Miguel Ricardo Buitrago, Juliana Restrepo

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Vol 7, No 4 (July 31, 2018): Coronary Revascularisation—Cardiology for the Surgeon

Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery with bilateral internal thoracic arteries: the Leipzig experience

Piroze M. Davierwala, Sergey Leontyev, Jens Garbade, Sven Lehmann, David Holzhey, Martin Misfeld, Michael A. Borger

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The radial artery is protective in women and men following coronary artery bypass grafting—a substudy of the radial artery patency study

Derrick Y. Tam, Saswata Deb, Bao Nguyen, Dennis T. Ko, Reena Karkhanis, Fuad Moussa, Jaclyn Fremes, Eric A. Cohen, Sam Radhakrishnan, Stephen E. Fremes, on behalf of the Radial Artery Patency Study Investigators

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Vol 7, No 2 (March 31, 2018): Tracheal Surgery

Functional outcome after (laryngo)tracheal resection and reconstruction for acquired benign (laryngo)tracheal stenosis

Simone T. Timman, Christiana Schoemaker, Wilson W. L. Li, Henri A. M. Marres, Jimmie Honings, Wim J. Morshuis, Erik H. F. M. van der Heijden, Ad F. T. M. Verhagen

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Vol 6, No 6 (November 30, 2017): Marfan Syndrome

Natural history of aortic root aneurysms in Marfan syndrome

Ayman Saeyeldin, Mohammad A. Zafar, Camilo A. Velasquez, Kevan Ip, Anton Gryaznov, Adam J. Brownstein, Yupeng Li, John A. Rizzo, Young Erben, Bulat A. Ziganshin, John A. Elefteriades

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Biomechanical properties of the thoracic aorta in Marfan patients

Fatiesa Sulejmani, Anastassia Pokutta-Paskaleva, Bulat Ziganshin, Bradley Leshnower, Glen Iannucci, John Elefteriades, Wei Sun

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Vol 6, No 5 (September 30, 2017): Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Parsimonious assessment for reoperative aortic valve replacement; the deterrent effect of low left ventricular ejection fraction and renal impairment

Maroun Yammine, Fernando Ramirez-Del Val, Julius I. Ejiofor, Robert C. Neely, Diana Shi, Siobhan McGurk, Sary F. Aranki, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Prem S. Shekar

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Clinical outcomes and prognostic factors of transcatheter aortic valve implantation in bicuspid aortic valve patients

Sung-Han Yoon, Rahul Sharma, Tarun Chakravarty, Hiroyuki Kawamori, Yoshio Maeno, Masaki Miyasaka, Takahiro Nomura, Tomoki Ochiai, Sharjeel Israr, Tanya Rami, Mamoo Nakamura, Wen Chen, Raj R. Makkar

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Long-term outcomes and prosthesis performance after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: results of self-expandable and balloon-expandable transcatheter heart valves

Giuseppe Tarantini, Paola A. M. Purita, Augusto D’Onofrio, Chiara Fraccaro, Anna Chiara Frigo, Gianpiero D’Amico, Luca Nai Fovino, Marta Martin, Francesco Cardaioli, Mostafa R. A. Badawy, Massimo Napodano, Gino Gerosa, Sabino Iliceto

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Outcomes of surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement in the octogenarians—surgery still the gold standard?

Sameer A. Hirji, Fernando Ramirez-Del Val, Ahmed A. Kolkailah, Julius I. Ejiofor, Siobhan McGurk, Ritam Chowdhury, Jiyae Lee, Pinak B. Shah, Piotr S. Sobieszczyk, Sary F. Aranki, Marc P. Pelletier, Prem S. Shekar, Tsuyoshi Kaneko

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