Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.  1997 Aug;30(8):770-779.

Clinical Analysis of Open Heart Surgery: Review of 450 Cases

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of EulJi Medical College, Taejon, Korea.
  • 2Duk In Clinics, Taejon, Korea.
  • 3Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Korea.

Abstract

From Feb. 1985 to Aug. 1996, 450 patients underwent open heart surgery with hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. In 450 cases of open heart surgery, 222 cases(49.3%) were congenital heart diseases and 228 cases(50.7%) were acquired heart diseases. In 222 cases of congenital heart diseases, there were 201 cases of acyanotic heart disease and 21 cases of cyanotic heart diseases. Among the 228 cases of acquired heart diseases, most cases were valvular heart diseases in which 206 valves were implanted. There were 32 cases of ischemic heart disease and the average graft anastomoses were 2.37 sites per operation. The operative mortality of congenital and acquired disease was 9.0% and 10.1% respectively and then overall mortality rate was 9.6%.

Keyword

Heart surgery; Analysis

MeSH Terms

Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Heart Diseases
Heart Valve Diseases
Heart*
Humans
Mortality
Myocardial Ischemia
Thoracic Surgery*
Transplants
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