MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH PRE-OPERATIVE AND PERSISTENT POST-OPERATIVE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION UNDERGOING MITRAL VALVE SURGERY FOR MITRAL REGURGITATION
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Adam Handen; Ann Canterbury; Daniel Shpilsky; João L. Cavalcante; Michael V. Genuardi; Gabrielle Vanspeybroeck; Stephen Y. Chan
- Source
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 75:2188
- Subject
- Mitral regurgitation
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.disease
Pulmonary hypertension
Pre operative
Stenosis
Internal medicine
cardiovascular system
medicine
Cardiology
In patient
cardiovascular diseases
Post operative
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Mitral valve surgery
- Language
- ISSN
- 0735-1097
While the implications and outcomes of pulmonary hypertension (PH) complicating mitral stenosis have been well described, PH in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery (MVS) for severe mitral regurgitation (MR) has been comparatively understudied. We aimed to describe post-operative mortality in