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Standardized Technique of Aortic Valve Re-implantation for Valve-sparing Aortic Root Replacement
Published on: December 11, 2017
Contemporary trends in aortic valve surgery: a single centre 10-year clinical experience
Naoji Hanayama1, Shafie Fazel, Bernard S Goldman
1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to present a comprehensive profile of the trends in aortic valve replacement at a single institution over the past decade. Prospectively collected data concerning 873 patients undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR), with and without coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), were analysed. The patients were divided into three time periods: period I, (1990 to 1993); period II, (1994 to 1996); and period III, (1997 to 2000). Actuarial survival of AVR patients with and without CABG at 7 years was 82.9 +/- 2.4% and 79.1 +/- 3.3% (p = 0.17), respectively. Actuarial survival at 7 years for stentless, mechanical, and stented valve patients were 89.5 +/- 2.7%, 85.5 +/- 2.8%, and 76.0 +/- 3.2%, respectively. There was a significant difference in survival between the stentless and stented valve groups (p = 0.014). Age (63.8 +/- 12.9 yrs, 66.2 +/- 11.0 yrs, 67.9 +/- 10.3 yrs; p = 0.01), the incidence of peripheral vascular disease (5.1%, 10.8%, 16.6%; p = 0.001), and the extent of coronary artery disease necessitating CABG (34.0%, 38.8%, 41.0%; p = 0.05) have increased significantly in the later time period. However, operative mortality has remained constant (4.7%, 4.8%, 4.5%; p = 0.9). Moreover, perioperative complications have decreased significantly (27.4%, 18.0, 16.0%; p = 0.001). Multivariate analysis identified more recent time period as independent protective factor for early mortality and morbidity (period I, RR 1.00; period II, RR 0.47; period III, RR 0.40).
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