Factors affecting left ventricular remodeling after valve replacement for aortic stenosis. An overview

Table 1 Normal reference values of EOA for the prosthetic aortic valves. EOA is expressed as mean values available in the literature

	No. of Patients,* %	Prosthetic Valve Size, mm
		19	21	23	25	27	29
Stented bioprosthetic valves
Medtronic Intact	129 (10.2)	0.85	1.02	1.27	1.40	1.66	2.04
Medtronic Mosaic	390 (30.8)	1.20	1.22	1.38	1.65	1.80	2.00
Hancock II	53 (4.2)	...	1.18	1.33	1.46	1.55	1.60
Carpentier-Edwards Perimount	59 (4.7)	1.10	1.30	1.50	1.80	1.80	...
St. Jude Medical X-cell	21 (1.7)	...	...	...	...	...	...
Stentless bioprosthetic valves
Medtronic freestyle	368 (29.1)	1.15	1.35	1.48	2.00	2.32	...
St Jude Medical Toronto SPV	60 (4.7)	...	1.30	1.50	1.70	2.00	2.50
Mechanical valves
St Jude Medical Standard	151 (11.9)	1.04	1.38	1.52	2.08	2.65	3.23
St Jude Medical Regent	13 (1.0)	1.50	2.00	2.40	2.50	3.60	4.80
MCRI On-X	18 (1.4)	1.50	1.70	2.00	2.40	3.20	3.20
Carbomedics	3 (0.2)	1.00	1.54	1.63	1.98	2.41	2.63
Björk Shiley CC	1 (0.1)	...	...	...	...	...	...

* No. of patients with the prosthesis in the cited study [27]. (Modified from Blais C, et al. Impact of valve prosthesis-patient mismatch on short-term mortality after aortic valve replacement. Circulation 2003:108:983–988, by permission of LWW) [27].

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