Why the study?
Does a handmade flipped-back polytetrafluoroethylene trileaflet-valved conduit provide satisfactory long-term outcomes in patients undergoing pulmonary valve replacement?
Comparison
Handmade flipped-back trileaflet-valved conduit
Design
Single-surgeon retrospective 10-year case series
Follow-up
Median 2.9 years
Authors
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Adds limited non-Japanese data on handmade PTFE pulmonary valves; leaves open durability and generalizability.
Does a handmade flipped-back polytetrafluoroethylene trileaflet-valved conduit provide satisfactory long-term outcomes in patients undergoing pulmonary valve replacement?
Handmade flipped-back ePTFE trileaflet-valved conduits for pulmonary valve replacement demonstrate excellent long-term survival and freedom from reintervention.
Chang et al. (2023) studied this question.
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