Table 2:

Observed perioperative mortality and annual adverse events for DAH in children in comparison to reported results of paediatric Ross procedures, mechanical AVR and standard allograft implantation in children

	DAH	Ross [18]	Mechanical [10]	Allograft [10]
Early death (%)	0.94	4.19	7.34	12.82
Late mortality (%/years)	0.38	0.54	1.23	1.59
Reoperation and intervention (%/years)	2	3.04	1.07	5.44
Structural valve degeneration (%/years)	2.29	3.25	0.86	2.93
Thrombosis/bleeding (%/years)	0	0.35	1.15	1.99
Endocarditis (%/years)	0.29	0.27	0.45	0.66

AVR: aortic valve replacement; DAH: decellularized aortic homografts.