Choosing a substitute cardiac valve: Type, size, surgeon

HOMOGRAFT REPLACEMENT OF THE AORTIC VALVE

1962 • 728 citations

Mitral Replacement

1961 • 660 citations

Homograft Aortic Valve Replacement in Aortic Incompetence and Stenosis

1964 • 429 citations

PARTIAL AND COMPLETE PROSTHESES IN AORTIC INSUFFICIENCY

1960 • 402 citations

Mitral Valvular Disease

1972 • 330 citations

Surgical correction of aortic insufficiency.

1954 • 245 citations

Homologous Aortic-Valve-Segment Transplants as Surgical Treatment for Aortic and Mitral Insufficiency

1956 • 224 citations

Severe valvular aortic stenosis in patients over 65 years of age

1971 • 217 citations

HETEROLOGOUS AORTIC VALVE TRANSPLANTATION

1965 • 196 citations

Long-term follow-up of isolated replacement of the aortic or mitral valve with the Starr-Edwards prosthesis

1975 • 181 citations

A New Tilting Disc Valve Prosthesis

1969 • 180 citations

Six-year follow-up of glutaraldehyde-preserved heterografts. With particular reference to the treatment of congenital valve malformations.

1974 • 173 citations

Causes of early postoperative death following cardiac valve replacement. Clinico-pathologic correlations in 64 patients studied at necropsy.

1967 • 162 citations

Causes of early postoperative death following cardiac valve replacement

1967 • 139 citations

Six-year follow-up of glutaraldehyde-preserved heterografts

1974 • 138 citations

The flexible stent. A new concept in the fabrication of tissue heart valve prostheses.

1971 • 137 citations

Aortic valve replacement with a gaged ball valve

1962 • 135 citations

Pathologic anatomy of cardiac valve replacement: A study of 224 necropsy patients

1973 • 130 citations

The flexible stent

1971 • 120 citations

Ball valve prostheses: Current appraisal of late results

1975 • 119 citations

Altered Platelet Function in Patients with Prosthetic Mitral Valves Effects of Sulfinpyrazone Therapy

1970 • 116 citations

Porcine Aortic Valves as Replacements for Human Heart Valves

1974 • 115 citations

A METHOD FOR PLACING A TOTAL HOMOLOGOUS AORTIC VALVE IN THE SUBCORONARY POSITION

1962 • 109 citations

Atrioventricular valve replacement with the Hancock porcine xenograft: a five year clinical experience.

1975 • 108 citations

Clinical and Haemodynamic Results of Aortic Valve Replacement with the Björk-Shiley Tilting Disc Valve Prosthesis

1971 • 100 citations

Homograft valve replacement for aortic valve disease.

1965 • 97 citations

Nonrheumatic valvular cardiac disease: a clinicopathologic survey of 27 different conditions causing valvular dysfunction.

1973 • 94 citations

Thrombosis on Bjork-Shiley aortic valve prosthesis

1974 • 91 citations

Homograft valve replacement for aortic valve disease.

1965 • 86 citations

Mitral valve replacement with the glutaraldehyde-preserved porcine heterograft. Clinical, hemodynamic, and pathological correlations.

1974 • 85 citations

The surgical correction of aortic regurgitation preliminary report.

1953 • 85 citations

A five-year study of viable aortic valve homografts

1972 • 83 citations

Late Postoperative Pathological Findings After Cardiac Valve Replacement

1967 • 83 citations

Hemolytic Anemia of Mechanical Origin with Aortic-Valve Prosthesis

1965 • 79 citations

Clinical and hemodynamic assessments of fabric-covered Starr-Edwards prosthetic valves

1970 • 77 citations

Aortic Valve Replacement with the Hancock Porcine Xenograft

1976 • 76 citations

Evaluation of aortic valve replacement with a porcine xenograft without long-term anticoagulation

1976 • 74 citations

Mitral valve replacement with the glutaraldehyde-preserved porcine heterograft

1974 • 72 citations

Mitral valve replacement with the Björk-Shiley tilting-disc prosthesis

1971 • 70 citations

Aortic-Valve Homograft in the Treatment of Aortic Insufficiency

1962 • 70 citations

Structural alterations in tissue cardiac valves implanted in patients and in calves

1973 • 69 citations

Aortic Ball Variance: Diagnosis and Treatment

1970 • 68 citations

Intravascular Hemolysis in Patients with Prosthetic Valves and Valvular Heart Disease

1969 • 65 citations

HOMOTRANSPLANTATION OF THE AORTIC VALVE

1961 • 62 citations

Prosthetic valves for cardiac surgery

1961 • 61 citations

Clinical Experience with a Porcine Aortic Valve Xenograft for Mitral Valve Replacement

1974 • 60 citations

Cardiac pathology after valve replacement with a tilting disc prosthesis (Björk-Shiley type)

1976 • 59 citations

Cardiac pathology after valve replacement by disc prosthesis

1975 • 57 citations

Mitral valve replacement with aortic heterografts in humans

1967 • 56 citations

Comparison of ball and disc valves for mitral valve replacement

1966 • 56 citations

Mechanisms of acute left atrial thrombosis after mitral valve replacement

1966 • 55 citations

Five years' experience with the Björk-Shiley tilting-disc valve in isolated aortic valvular disease

1974 • 55 citations

Functional evaluation of the porcine heterograft in the mitral position.

1975 • 54 citations

Cardiac Valve Replacement

1966 • 54 citations

Mitral valve replacement with cloth-covered composite-seat prostheses

1974 • 53 citations

Current status of the Starr-Edwards cloth-covered prosthetic cardiac valves.

1972 • 52 citations

Fatal degeneration of the silicone rubber ball of the Starr-Edwards prosthetic aortic valve

1968 • 50 citations

Long-Term Results of “Simple” Thrombectomy for Thrombosed Björk-Shiley Aortic Valve Prostheses

1975 • 48 citations

Hemodynamic Studies in Patients with 2M and 3M Starr-Edwards Prostheses: Evidence of Obstruction to Left Atrial Emptying

1969 • 47 citations

Analysis of Homograft Valve Failure in 311 Patients Followed up to 10 Years

1975 • 46 citations

Current status of the Beall, Bjork-Shiley, Braunwald-Cutter, Lillehei-Kaster and Smeloff-Cutter cardiac valve prostheses

1975 • 46 citations

Aortic valve replacement with preserved aortic valve homografts

1974 • 45 citations

Anatomic studies of hearts containing caged-ball prosthetic valves.

1967 • 45 citations

Mitral valve replacement with the fresh aortic valve homograft: experimental results and clinical application.

1967 • 43 citations

Pulsatile flow Studies of Prosthetic Aortic Valves

1971 • 43 citations

Renal Hemosiderosis in Patients with Prosthetic Aortic Valves

1966 • 41 citations

Platelet survival time following aortic valve replacement.

1975 • 41 citations

Homologous dura mater cardiac valves

1975 • 40 citations

Dysfunction of the beall mitral prosthesis and its detection by cinefluoroscopy and echocardiography

1973 • 40 citations

Hemodynamic Results with Full-Flow Orifice Prosthetic Valves

1967 • 40 citations

Isolated replacement of the mitral valve with the Starr-Edwards prosthesis

1976 • 40 citations

Mechanical “ball failure” in Starr-Edwards prosthetic valves

1968 • 39 citations

Prosthetic Valves for Cardiac Surgery

1962 • 39 citations

Disc Variance of Beall Mitral Valve

1971 • 38 citations

Biologic Valves

1972 • 38 citations

Prosthetic Replacement of the Mitral Valve

1973 • 38 citations

Current status of prosthetics for heart valve replacement

1973 • 38 citations

Clinical and hemodynamic comparisons of Kay-Shiley, Starr-Edwards No. 6520, and Reis-Hancock porcine xenograft mitral valves.

1974 • 38 citations

Late Embolization of Prosthetic Mitral Valve Occluder with Survival Following Reoperation

1975 • 37 citations

Aortography Follow-Up in Patients with the Björk-Shiley Aortic Disc Valve Prosthesis

1973 • 37 citations

Death Due to Swelling of Ball Component of Aortic Ball-Valve Prosthesis

1967 • 37 citations

Aortic valve replacement: two years' experience with the Björk-Shiley tilting-disc prosthesis.

1972 • 36 citations

A Complication of Valve Replacement by a Caged-Lens Prosthesis

1967 • 35 citations

Mitral and tricuspid valve replacement with frame-mounted aortic heterografts

1968 • 35 citations

Malfunction of mitral ball-valve prostheses due to swollen poppet

1969 • 34 citations

Tissue valves

1975 • 34 citations

Narrow Aortic Root Complicating Aortic Valve Replacement

1969 • 33 citations

Hemodynamic evaluation of the Lillehei-Kaster pivoting disc valve in patients

1976 • 33 citations

Mortality and Pathology Following Aortic Valve Replacement with the Björk-Shiley Tilting Disc Valve

1973 • 32 citations

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME PROSTHETIC VALVES FOR AORTIC AND MITRAL REPLACEMENT.

1965 • 31 citations

Obstruction of Tricuspid Ball-Valve Prostheses

1971 • 31 citations

Aortic and Mitral Valve Replacement with Cloth-Covered Braunwald-Cutter Prosthesis

1975 • 31 citations

Strut Fracture

1973 • 30 citations

Abnormal Hemodynamic Function After Disc Mitral Valve Replacement

1969 • 30 citations

Early and late thromboembolic complications after mitral valve replacement: a comparative study of various protheses.

1972 • 29 citations

Acute Mitral Insufficiency Due to Jamming of a Disc-Valve Prosthesis

1967 • 28 citations

Hemodynamic evaluation of the Beall mitral valve prosthesis.

1972 • 27 citations

Replacement of heart valves with frame-mounted tissue grafts

1974 • 27 citations

Experience with the Björk-Shiley Prosthetic Valve

1973 • 26 citations

Ten-Year Experience with Cardiac Valve Replacement

1973 • 26 citations

The Clinical Diagnosis of Ball Variance in a Mitral Valve Prosthesis

1968 • 25 citations

Heart-valve replacement with Lillehei-Kaster pivoting disk prosthesis.

1974 • 25 citations

Hemolysis following mitral valve replacement with the Beall valve prosthesis

1971 • 25 citations

Hemodynamic confirmation of obstruction to left ventricular inflow by a caged-ball prosthetic mitral valve. Case report.

1973 • 24 citations

Changes in the Durability of Silicone Rubber in Ball-Valve Prostheses

1972 • 23 citations

Chronic Hemolysis Following Mitral Valve Replacement

1973 • 23 citations

Late hemodynamic studies after mitral valve surgery

1973 • 22 citations

Clinical Experience with an Improved Mitral Valve Prosthesis

1973 • 22 citations

Engagement of ventricular myocardium by open-cage atrioventricular valvular prosthesis

1969 • 22 citations

Late Stenosis of Starr-Edwards Cloth-Covered Prostheses

1975 • 22 citations

Occluder Disruption of Wada-Cutter Valve Prosthesis

1975 • 21 citations

Hemodynamic findings following replacement of the mitral valve with the Beall valve prosthesis

1971 • 21 citations

Combined Prosthetic Replacement of the Mitral and Aortic Valves

1967 • 21 citations

Lethal Ball Variance in the Starr-Edwards Prosthetic Mitral Valve

1970 • 21 citations

Hemodynamic confirmation of obstruction to left ventricular inflow by a caged-ball prosthetic mitral valve

1973 • 20 citations

Results Of Aortic Valve Replacement With The Kay-Shiley Disc Valve

1969 • 20 citations

Obstruction of the aorta by prosthetic aortic valve

1968 • 19 citations

Comparative results of aortic valve replacement with different prosthetic heart valves.

1972 • 19 citations

Results of mitral valve replacement with the Beall prosthesis in 209 patients

1976 • 19 citations

Haemolysis with Bjork-Shiley and Starr-Edwards prosthetic heart valves: a comparative study

1974 • 19 citations

Haemodynamic and angiographic findings in patients with isolated aortic valvular disease before and after insertion of a Starr-Edwards aortic ball-valve prosthesis.

1970 • 19 citations

Postoperative Hemodynamic Evaluation of a New Fabric-Covered Ball-Valve Prosthesis

1973 • 18 citations

Thrombosis of a mitral disc-valve prosthesis: Diagnostic importance of the absent opening click

1970 • 18 citations

Clinical and Hemodynamic Findings Following Replacement of the Mitral Valve with a Beall Valve Prosthesis (Dacron Velour-Covered Teflon-Disc Valve)

1969 • 18 citations

Reoperation for fibrinous stenosis of disc mitral valve prosthesis

1969 • 18 citations

Late Thrombotic Obstruction of Starr-Edwards Tricuspid Valve Prosthesis

1972 • 18 citations

Acute Massive Mitral Regurgitation Resulting from Disc-Valve Malfunction

1968 • 18 citations

A Complication of Mitral-Valve Replacement with Caged-Lens Prosthesis

1968 • 17 citations

Quantitation of red blood cell destruction associated with valvular disease and prosthetic valves

1970 • 17 citations

Fatal aortic regurgitation following replacement of the mitral and aortic valves. A mechanical complication of double valve replacement.

1966 • 16 citations

Auscultatory and phonocardiographic sign of ball variance in a mitral prosthetic valve

1971 • 16 citations

Isolated mitral valve replacement with the Kay-Shiley disc valve

1975 • 16 citations

Fatal aortic regurgitation following replacement of the mitral and aortic valves

1966 • 16 citations

Severe, intermittent, mitral regurgitation in a Cross-Jones valve

1969 • 15 citations

Causes of Death and other Anatomic Observations after Cardiac Valve Replacement

2015 • 15 citations

Tissue valves in the mitral position. Five years' experience.

1975 • 15 citations

Chronic hemolysis following mitral valve replacement

1976 • 14 citations

Mitral disc-valve variance

1972 • 14 citations

Prosthetic Aortic Stenosis

1974 • 14 citations

Mechanical dysfunction in caged-lens prostheses

1970 • 14 citations

Ball variance in a Starr-Edwards prosthetic mitral valve causing acute pulmonary edema (diagnosis by auscultation before onset of symptoms).

1970 • 13 citations

Mitral valve replacement with the Björk-Shiley tilting disc valve. A clinical and haemodynamic study in patients with isolated mitral valve lesions.

1974 • 13 citations

Hemodynamic Function of the Kay-Shiley Prosthetic Cardiac Valve

1973 • 13 citations

Cardiac Valve Replacement with Wada-Cutter Prosthesis

1972 • 13 citations

Engagement of ventricular myocardium by struts of mitral prosthesis

1971 • 12 citations

Insertion of Björk-Shiley Aortic Prosthesis by Continuous Suture Technique

1974 • 12 citations

Fatal Malfunction of Edwards Low-Profile Mitral Valves

1970 • 10 citations

Complications of cloth-covered prosthetic valves: Results with a new mitral prosthesis

1975 • 10 citations

Tricuspid valve replacement: a five-year appraisal.

1975 • 10 citations

Sudden mechanical malfunction of Hammersmith mitral valve prostheses due to wear of polypropylene

1974 • 9 citations

Ball variance in a sutureless mitral valve prosthesis

1971 • 9 citations

Acute dysfunction of Starr-Edwards mitral prostheses

1971 • 9 citations

Silicone Ball Variance

1968 • 9 citations

Progress in Cardiovascular Surgery: Fatal Arrhythmias Caused by the Pressure of the Ball-Valve Prosthesis Upon the Left Ventricular Myocardium

1967 • 8 citations

Comparative analysis of the Starr-Edwards ball valve, the Kay-Suzuki disc valve and transplant valves in the surgical correction of aortic valve disease

1970 • 8 citations

Ball variance in a sutureless mitral valve prosthesis. A report of two cases and a clue to early diagnosis.

1971 • 8 citations

Complications of beall valve prosthesis

1972 • 7 citations

Emergency Thrombectomy of the Prosthetic Mitral Valve

1970 • 7 citations

Fascia lata valves: a clinicopathological study.

1975 • 7 citations

Fatal arrhythmias caused by the pressure of the ball-valve prosthesis upon the left ventricular myocardium.

1967 • 7 citations

Diagnostic Features of Malfunction of Disk Mitral Valve Prostheses

1971 • 7 citations

Evaluation of the Kay-Shiley disc valve prosthesis in the aortic position. Clinical and haemodynamic results, and experimental comparison with other prosthetic aortic valves.

1970 • 7 citations

Malfunction of a Disc Mitral Valve Prosthesis: Detection by Phonocardiography

1973 • 7 citations

Malfunctioning tricuspid valve prosthesis. Clinical, phonocardiographic, echocardiographic, and surgical findings.

1974 • 6 citations

Cocking of a poppet-disc prosthesis in the aortic position. A cause of intermittent aortic regurgitation.

1976 • 6 citations

Supravalvular stenosis after disc mitral valve replacement

1971 • 6 citations

Cocking of a poppet-disc prosthesis in the aortic position

1976 • 5 citations

Polypropylene Poppets for Low-Profile Prosthetic Heart Valves

1972 • 5 citations

Malfunction of tricuspid valve prosthesis shown by isotope angiocardiography

1976 • 4 citations

Long-term results with the Björk-Shiley tilting disk valve in aortic valvular disease.

1975 • 4 citations

The Fabric-Covered Prosthetic Heart Valve

1975 • 4 citations

Mitral valve replacement with a new prosthesis. Experience with 366 patients.

1973 • 3 citations