December 22, 2005European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic SurgeryOpen Access

Performance at 10 years of the CarboMedics ‘Top-Hat’ valve. Postclamping time is a predictor of mortality

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Population

269 patients undergoing aortic valve replacement with a CarboMedics 'Top-Hat' supraannular prosthesis…

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

mean 82.3 +/- 17.8 months

Authors

JBJosé Manuel López BernalInstituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla JLJavier LorcaUniversidad de Santiago de Chile DPDolores Prieto-Salceda

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Implication

Prolonged postclamping time strongly predicts hospital mortality after Top-Hat AVR; leaves open whether shortening ischemic time improves outcomes.

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Population

269 patients (average age 63.9 years) undergoing aortic valve replacement (75.5% primary, 24.5% repeat) with a CarboMedics 'Top-Hat' supraannular prosthesis between June 1993 and May 2001.

Intervention

CarboMedics 'Top-Hat' supraannular aortic prosthesis implantation

Outcome

Hospital mortality and late cardiac-related mortality at 10 yearshard clinical

The CarboMedics 'Top-Hat' supraannular aortic prosthesis shows acceptable 10-year outcomes, with postclamping time identified as a strong predictor of both hospital and late cardiac-related mortality.

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Bernal et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a72f82db053ac046a60d9bc https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcts.2005.10.044

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Prolonged postclamping time strongly predicts hospital mortality after Top-Hat AVR; leaves open whether shortening ischemic time improves outcomes.

Performance at 10 years of the CarboMedics ‘Top-Hat’ valve. Postclamping time is a predictor of mortality

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Performance at 10 years of the CarboMedics ‘Top-Hat’ valve. Postclamping time is a predictor of mortality

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