Aortic valve replacement with the Hancock standard, Björk-Shiley, and Lillehei-Kaster prostheses. A comparison based on follow-up from 1 to 15 years.

Prosthetic valve endocarditis.

1984 • 512 citations

Thrombotic and Bleeding Complications of Prosthetic Heart Valves

1987 • 295 citations

Calcific degeneration as the main cause of porcine bioprosthetic valve failure

1984 • 199 citations

Actuarial Analysis of Surgical Results: Rationale and Method

1977 • 192 citations

Five to Eight-Year Follow-up of Patients Undergoing Porcine Heart-Valve Replacement

1981 • 168 citations

Long-term evaluation of the porcine xenograft bioprosthesis

1979 • 161 citations

Ultrastructural substrates of dystrophic calcification in porcine bioprosthetic valve failure.

1985 • 157 citations

The Björk-Shiley valve

1981 • 150 citations

Early and late risk of aortic valve replacement. A 12 year concomitant comparison of the porcine bioprosthetic and tilting disc prosthetic aortic valves.

1984 • 149 citations

Results of reoperation for primary tissue failure of porcine bioprostheses

1985 • 104 citations

Acute thrombotic obstruction with Björk-Shiley valves

1978 • 100 citations

Biological versus mechanical valves

1987 • 94 citations

Systemic thromboembolism in mitral and aortic Starr-Edwards prostheses: a 10-19 year follow-up.

1982 • 93 citations

A prospective evaluation of the Björk-Shiley, Hancock, and Carpentier-Edwards heart valve prostheses.

1986 • 87 citations

Performance characteristics of the Starr-Edwards Model 1260 aortic valve prosthesis beyond ten years

1984 • 87 citations

Isolated Mitral Valve Replacement with the Hancock Bioprosthesis: A 13-Year Appraisal

1984 • 77 citations

Significant patient-related determinants of prosthetic valve performance.

1986 • 60 citations

Statistical considerations in the analysis and reporting of time-related events

1977 • 51 citations

Ten-Year Follow-up in Aortic Valve Replacement Using the Björk-Shiley Prosthesis

1981 • 49 citations

A Tri-Institutional Comparison of Tissue and Mechanical Valves using a Patient-Oriented Definition of “Treatment Failure”

1987 • 41 citations

Comparative evaluation of aortic valve replacement with Starr, Björk, and porcine valve prostheses.

1985 • 35 citations

The Standard Hancock Porcine Bioprosthesis: Overall Experience at the University of Padova

1988 • 34 citations

Clinical comparison of St. Jude and porcine aortic valve prostheses.

1985 • 33 citations

Long-term comparative analysis of the Björk-Shiley and Hancock valves implanted in 1975

1985 • 33 citations

Glutaraldehyde-Preserved Porcine Bioprosthesis

1983 • 31 citations

Clinical experience with the Lillehei-Kaster cardiac valve prosthesis

1976 • 31 citations

Comparative analysis of mechanical and bioprosthetic valves after aortic valve replacement

1987 • 25 citations

Long-term Durability of the Hancock Porcine Bioprosthesis Following Combined Mitral and Aortic Valve Replacement: An 11-Year Experience

1987 • 24 citations

Björk-Shiley and Carpentier-Edwards valves

1987 • 22 citations

Primary Tissue Valve Degeneration in Glutaraldehyde-Preserved Porcine Bioprostheses: Hancock I Versus Carpentier-Edwards at 4- to 7-Years' Follow-up

1986 • 17 citations

Long-term follow-up in 262 patients after aortic valve replacement with the Lillehei–Kaster prosthesis. Overall results and prosthesis-related complications

1986 • 8 citations

Thrombotic Obstruction of Aortic, Mitral, and Tricuspid Björk-Shiley Prostheses in the Same Patient

1986 • 4 citations