title: Role of the cryopreserved homograft in isolated elective aortic valve replacement.
authors.affiliation: The Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. jbyrne@partners.org
authors.forename: John G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Byrne
authors.forename: Alexandros N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Karavas
authors.forename: Tomislav
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mihaljevic
authors.forename: James D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Rawn
authors.forename: Sary F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Aranki
authors.forename: Lawrence H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Cohn
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D015925:Cryopreservation; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011336:Probability; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015996:Survival Rate; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D016896:Treatment Outcome