[PDF] Top 20 Cardiac Valve Replacement An Update

... Cardiac valve replacement An update Med J Malaysia Vol 46 No 2 June 1991 Cardiac valve replacement An update Associate Professor K O Lim School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MINDEN, 11800 Pul[.] ... See full document

... aortic valve replacement (AVR), though stentless AVR required longer cross-clamp and cardiopulmonary bypass ...prosthetic valve failure was also reported in patients who underwent root ... See full document

... Aortic stiffness measured by aortic PWV is independently associated with pre- and post-operative NYHA and leg edema after aortic valve replacement, but not to LV func- tion or BNP. These findings ... See full document

... Postprocedural AF is a predictor of long-term mortal- ity in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. 55 56 Earlier studies revealed a signi fi cant reduction of left atrial pres- sure in the fi rst postoperative days ... See full document

... increase the ability to explore the patients’ experiences and we used two researchers to conduct the analysis. Two interviewers could possibly be overwhelming to the patients and it is possible that “one to one” ... See full document

... The difficulty in drawing distinct global guidelines for high-risk patients is partially due to the variability in deter- mining what defines “high risk”. The most common tools in helping to guide decision-making are the ... See full document

... for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation score (EuroSCORE) was >20%, or their EuroSCORE was ≤20% and the following criteria were met: contraindicated for surgery, severely reduced pulmonary function (defined as ... See full document

... for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE), STS risk score, preoperative left ventricular ejection fraction (LV-EF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary hypertension, peripheral vascular ... See full document

... and cardiac diagnosis, we found significant influence for both factors: And female patients with coronary heart disease requiring CABG were significant older than female patients with an aortic stenosis undergoing ... See full document

... Seventeen patients (5.4%) died either in hospital or in the first 30 days following operation (range 0 to 40 days). Of these patients 16 had undergone DVR and 1 AVR+MVrep (p = NS). The major causes of hospital death were ... See full document

... Results showed that warfarin requirements were in increasing trend during the first three months after heart valve replacement (both AVR and MVR) but this pattern was absent in patients with AF. The trend ... See full document

... Mitral Valve Replacement (MVR) involved implantation of a Starr-Edwards prosthetic valve follow- ing complete excision of the mitral leaflets, chordae tend- inae and the heads of the papillary ... See full document

... of cardiac output and other haemodynamic ...elective cardiac surgery (CABG, aortic or mitral valve replacement or combined ...of cardiac index estimates at specific time points during ... See full document

... for cardiac valve replacement (CVR) under cardiopulmonary bypass ...and cardiac troponin I (cTnI) levels were increased more remarkably at T2, T3, T4, and T5 than at T1 in both groups ... See full document

... heart valve replacement surgery under CPB, dexmedetomidine may reduce cere- bral oxygen consumption by reducing cerebral oxygen metabolism, and further improve brain oxygenation and the hypoxia tolerance of ... See full document

... primary cardiac neoplasms with an overall incidence estimated at ...for cardiac myxoma to arise from the mitral ...mitral valve myxoma since they were first reported in 1871, including six postmor- ... See full document

... differences can be determined using studies 87% smaller than echocardiographically based studies, with only 11 patients per group required to detect a 3% difference in LVEF [13]. Our study groups were matched for ... See full document

... disease, valve replacement surgery improves morbidity and mortality ...90,000 valve replacement surgeries were performed in the United ...appropriate valve type for an individual ... See full document

... Since the 2012 ESC/EACTS guidelines on the manage- ment of valvular heart disease, a large amount of new data have accumulated, in particular in the field of TAVR. Indications for TAVR have expanded as there is new ... See full document

... Blalock and coworkers for the first time noted chy- lothorax following SVC ligation in 1936 . Then other surgeons observed similar findings (chylothrax) after surgical corrections such as: aortic coarctation, BTS, ... See full document