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On the 24th of May 1994, the cardiac surgical unit at the Prince Charles Hospital began a clinical trial evaluating the ATS mechanical valve. At that time, the options at our hospital for valve replacement were the St. Jude Medical mechanical valve, the Carpentier-Edwards SAV xenograft in the aortic position, the Medtronic Intact xenograft, the cryopreserved allograft in the aortic position, and the occasional pulmonary autograft. More recently, the Carpentier-Edwards Perimount heterograft has become available and the St. Jude Medical X-cell valve has started clinical trials.
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Tesar, P.J., O’Brien, M.F., Mau, T.K., Pohlner, P.G. (1998). Queensland/Australian experience with the ATS mechanical valve November 1996. In: Krian, A., Matloff, J.M., Nicoloff, D.M. (eds) Advancing the Technology of Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valves. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93691-3_8
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