W R Eric Jamieson, John L Ely, Johan Brink, Timothy Pennel, Paul Bannon, Jashvant Patel, Rajiv Kumar Gupta, Prasanna Simha Mohan Rao, Damyanti Agrawal, Lars Wiklund, A Pieter Kappetein, Rune Haaverstad, Thomas Geisner, Torsten Doenst, Christian Schlensak, Salgunan Nair, Craig Brown, Matthias Siepe, Ralph J Damiano, Yves Langlois, Kotturathu M Cherian, Hormoz Azar, John C Chen, Joseph E Bavaria, Lynn M Fedoruk, Nabil A Munfakh, V Sridhar, Peter M Scholz, Thomas A Pfeffer, Jian Ye
OBJECTIVES: The Prospective Randomized On-X Mechanical Prosthesis Versus St Jude Medical Mechanical Prosthesis Evaluation (PROSE) trial purpose was to investigate whether a current-generation mechanical prosthesis (On-X; On-X Life Technologies/Artivion Inc) reduced the incidence of thromboembolic-related complications compared with a previous-generation mechanical prosthesis (St Jude Medical Mechanical Prosthesis; Abbott/St Jude Medical). This second report documents the valve-related complications by individual prostheses and by Western and Developing populations...
December 2022: JTCVS open