Prosthetic valves and the unending quest for the holy grail

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Paul Kurlansky. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 May.

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. 2015 May;149(5):1242-3.

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.02.014. Epub 2015 Feb 14.

¹ Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY. Electronic address: pk2245@cumc.columbia.edu.

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Surgeon versus device in aortic valve replacement.
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Surgeons and devices in aortic valve replacement. Reply to the editor.
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National trends in utilization and in-hospital outcomes of mechanical versus bioprosthetic aortic valve replacements.
Isaacs AJ, Shuhaiber J, Salemi A, Isom OW, Sedrakyan A. Isaacs AJ, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 May;149(5):1262-9.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.01.052. Epub 2015 Feb 11. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015. PMID: 25791947