Pulmonary valve prostheses: patient's lifetime procedure load and durability. Evaluation of the German National Register for Congenital Heart Defects.
Dietmar BoethigMurat AvsarUlrike M M BauerSamir SarikouchPhilipp BeerbaumFelix BergerRobert CesnjevarIngo DaehnertSven DittrichPeter EwertAxel HaverichJürgen HörerMartin KostelkaJoachim PhotiadisEugen SandicaStephan SchubertAleksandra UrbanDmitry BobylevAlexander Horkenull nullPublished in: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (2021)
TCVs doubled freedom from explantation of conventional valves. Homografts' age group-specific explantation hazard ratio was lowest; Matrix P's hazard ratio was highest. Age-stratified Cox regressions improve the precision of prosthesis durability evaluations. The median time between procedures for PVR patients shortened significantly to 2.6 years. At 30 years, 42% had ≥3 PVRs.