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Calcification and Oxidative Modifications Are Associated With Progressive Bioprosthetic Heart Valve Dysfunction

BACKGROUND: Bioprosthetic heart valves (BHVs), fabricated from glutaraldehyde‐pretreated bovine pericardium or porcine aortic valves, are widely used for the surgical or interventional treatment of heart valve disease. Reoperation becomes increasingly necessary over time because of BHV dysfunction....

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Autores principales: Lee, Suengwon, Levy, Robert J., Christian, Abigail J., Hazen, Stanley L., Frick, Nathan E., Lai, Eric K., Grau, Juan B., Bavaria, Joseph E., Ferrari, Giovanni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28483776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.117.005648