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Table 1 Pre-determined primary and secondary endpoints extracted from eligible full-text articles

From: Clinical performance of decellularized heart valves versus standard tissue conduits: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Primary endpoints

Secondary endpoints

Mortality

Reoperations

Transvalvular gradient

Valvular function

Valvular characteristics

Histological commentary

Adverse events

30-day

30-day

Overall

Insufficiency

Diameter

Fibroproliferation

Infective endocarditis OR freedom from infective endocarditis

1-year

1-year

 

Stenosis

Area

Recellularization

Valve thrombosis OR freedom from valve thrombosis

Overall rate OR freedom from mortality

Overall rate OR freedom from reoperations

 

Explantation rate OR freedom from explantation

Calcification

Antibody/humoral immune response

 
 

Time to reoperation

 

Rate of dysfunction OR freedom from dysfunction

Cusp mobility

  
   

Failure rate OR freedom from failure

Cusp retraction

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