Tag: tissue valve

Candidates for tissue valve replacement

Johnson Francis | January 4, 2015

Candidates for tissue valve (bioprosthetic) replacement: elderly, females planning pregnancy, following infective endocarditis and right sided valve disease

Cardiac Surgery

No difference in survival with tissue valve in dialysis patients with endocarditis

Johnson Francis | July 28, 2013

Independent predictors of mortality for valve replacement were: older age, DKD, surgery during index hospitalization, staph infection, dysrhythmias