ANATOLIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, cilt.7, sa.4, ss.365-370, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
Objective: Calcification is a frequent cause of the clinical failure of bioprosthetic heart valves fabricated from glutaraldehyde pretreated bovine pericardium. The major object of the present study is to prevent calcification of pericardial bioprosthetic heart valve materials with TPEN.