ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Outcomes of patients subjected to aortic valve replacement surgery using mechanical or biological prostheses

Adriana Silveira de ALMEIDA; Paulo Dornelles Picon; Orlando Carlos Belmonte Wender

DOI: 10.5935/1678-9741.20110006

^ISpecialist in Cardiovascular Surgery at MEC/Master's Degree in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Sciences at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Cardiovascular Surgeon Physician of the Cardiovascular Surgery Service at Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
^IIPhD in Cardiology at UFRGS; Adjunct Professor of the Internal Medicine Department at UFRGS Medical School, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
^IIIPhD in Medicine at Munich University, Germany; Associate Professor of the Surgery Department of UFRGS Medical School, Head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Service at Clinics Hospital of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

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