Figure Legends
Figure 1. Types of conduits used for aortic root replacement.
Figure 2. Conduits and aortic valves used for aortic root
replacement.
ATS Aortic Valves Graft Model 502 AG and ATS Open Pivot
valve – ATS Medical, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Carpentier-Edwards
Perimount Aortic Model and Perimount Magna Ease – Edwards
Lifesciences LLC, Irvine, CA, USA;
Carbomedics Carbo-seal – Sorin Group, Milan, Italy;
Medtronic Freestyle – Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, MN, USA;
St Jude Medical Aortic Valved Graft, Epic Heart Valve, Trifecta
Heart Valve and Toronto Root – St Jude Medical, Inc, St Paul, MN, USA;
*All the valves prostheses were used with a Hemashield aortic
graft (Maquet, Wayne, NJ, USA).
Figure 3 . Receiver operating characteristic curve (blue line)
for independent predictors of hospital death.