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, K 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 PROSE trial purpose is to investigate whether the incidence of thromboembolic-related complications is reduced with a current generation mechanical prosthesis (On-X Life Technologies/CryoLife Inc.-On-X) compared with a previous generation mechanical prosthesis (St Jude Medical-SJM). The primary purpose of the initial report is to document the preoperative demographics, and the preoperative and operative risk factors by individual prosthesis and by Western and Developing populations...
November 3, 2021: Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery