Title | Indications for Heart Valve Replacement by Age Group [electronic resource] / edited by Carlos Gomez-Duran, George J. Reul |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1989 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6900-4 |
Descript | 352 p. online resource |
I. Experience with Heart Valve Replacement in Pediatric Patients -- 1. The durability of the St. Jude Medicalยฎ valve in children -- 2. A seven-year experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ heart valve -- 3. St. Jude Medicalยฎ cardiac valve experience in infants and children -- 4. Thromboembolic complications in pediatric patients undergoing valve replacement with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ prosthesis -- 5. Long-term results of valvular replacement in pediatric patients -- 6. Performance of mechanical valves in pediatric patients -- I. Discussion -- II. Heart Valve Replacement in Adults (Age 65 and Younger) -- 7. Prospective randomized study of the St. Jude Medicalยฎ, Bjรถrk-Shileyยฎ, and Starr-Edwardsยฎ 6120 valve prostheses in the mitral position -- 8. Nine years experience with 1287 Carpentier-Edwardsยฎ porcine bioprostheses -- 9. Primary tissue failure in porcine aortic and bovine pericardial bioprostheses -- 10. Midterm follow-up of the BioImplantโข (Liotta) heart valve -- 11. A comparison of St. Jude Medicalยฎ and Carpentier-Edwardsยฎ xenograft valves in the mitral position -- 12. Three-dimensional visualization of velocity fields downstream of the St. Jude Medicalยฎ aortic valve implanted in pigs -- 13. Quality of life after valve replacement with the St. Jude Medical BioImplantโข heart valve: a four-year study -- 14. Cinefluoroscopic follow up of the St. Jude Medicalยฎ valve in the aortic position -- 15. Thromboembolism in adults with St. Jude Medicalยฎ valves on ticlopidine and aspirin maintenance -- 16. Midterm follow-up of the St. Jude Medicalยฎ heart valve -- II. Discussion -- III. Valve Replacement in the Elderly (Age 66 and Older) -- 17. Combined valve and coronary artery bypass procedures in septuagenarians and octogenarians: results in 119 patients -- 18. The Ionescu-Shileyยฎ xenobioprosthesis as an aortic valve substitute in patients 66 years of age and older -- 19. Valve replacement in the elderly: operative risk and early postoperative results -- 20. Aortic valve replacement in patients 75 years and over -- 21. Durabilty and long-term results of aortic valve replacement in the elderly -- III. Discussion -- IV. Considerations in Heart Valve Replacement -- 22. Mechanical or tissue valves: Factors influencing differential therapy -- 23. Comparative analysis of mechanical and bioprosthetic valves following aortic valve replacement -- 24. Technical problems in aortic valve re-replacement -- 25. Hydrodynamics of cardiac valve prostheses: Is excellence necessary? -- 26. Surgical treatment of prosthetic valve endocarditis -- 27. Performance of four different types of mechanical and two bioprosthetic valves in the tricuspid position -- 28. Comparison of reoperation and complications in double valve (mitral and aortic) implants with mechanical or biological prostheses -- 29. Quality of life in patients with mechanical heart valves: Influence of anticoagulation therapy and valve noise -- 30. Valved conduits and conduit exchange: long-term follow-up -- IV. Discussion -- V. Long-Term Clinical Follow-Up -- 31. Seven-year experience and follow-up with St. Jude Medicalยฎ prostheses -- 32. Durability and low thrombogenicity of the St. Jude Medicalยฎ heart valve: long-term follow-up -- 33. Aortic and mitral valve replacement with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ prosthesis: a nine-year update report -- 34. Eight-year clinical experience with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ cardiac prosthetic valve -- 35. Heart valve replacement with the St. Jude Medicalยฎ valve prosthesis: long-term experience in 743 patients receiving valve implants in Switzerland -- V. Discussion