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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.