Clinical impact of pathology-proven etiology of severely stenotic aortic valves on mid-term outcomes in patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement

• Shiro Miura ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: s.miura@ohno-kinen.or.jp

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Hokkaido Ohno Memorial Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9634-5980

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• Katsumi Inoue ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katsumi Inoue, Hiraku Kumamaru

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kokura Memorial Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan

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• Hiraku Kumamaru ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Katsumi Inoue, Hiraku Kumamaru

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Quality Assessment, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takehiro Yamashita ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Hokkaido Ohno Memorial Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

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• Michiya Hanyu ,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, Tazuke Kofukai Foundation Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan

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• Shinichi Shirai ,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kokura Memorial Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan

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• Kenji Ando

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kokura Memorial Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan

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