Heart Valve Prosthesis
- Early-onset prosthetic valve endocarditis
Despite advances in surgical expertise and antibiotic prophylaxis, this complication occurs in about 1% of patients with implanted heart valves, with a mortality of 30% to 50%.
- Aortic valve replacement in young patients: long-term follow-up
The risk of long-term cardiovascular complications necessitates close follow-up through late childhood and adulthood.
- Cardiac rhythm and conduction disturbances in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery
Mitral valve replacement and repair were compared as to their effect on the incidence of supraventricular rhythm and conduction disturbances in a group of patients with isolated mitral valve disease.