Table 1:

Preoperative and surgical variables

Variable	Patients (N = 113)
Preoperative variables
Age (years)	67.2 ± 8.6
Male sex	77 (68.1%)
Body mass index	24.6 ± 3.1
New York Heart Association Class
I–II	87 (76.9%)
III	26 (23.1%)
Logistic EuroSCORE	5.1 ± 2.4
Surgical variables
Bicuspid aortic valve	15 (13.3%)
Pump time (min)	89.8 ± 14.4
Cross-clamp time (min)	65.7 ± 14.5
Prosthetic valve (mm)
19	41 (36.3%)
21	61 (53.9%)
23	11 (9.8%)
Medtronic Mosaic Ultra porcine valve	88 (77.8%)
Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Magna pericardial valve	25 (22.2%)

Values expressed as mean ± SD or n (%).