Population
Patients requiring prosthetic heart valve replacement
Design
Review
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May inform individualized valve selection; leaves open need for updated comparative trials in younger patients.
The choice between mechanical and bioprosthetic valves requires balancing the durability of mechanical valves against the nonthrombogenicity of bioprostheses based on patient-specific characteristics.
Giddens et al. (1993) studied this question.
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