HEART VALVE SURGERY
Heart valve surgery is a procedure used to repair or replace diseased heart valves. There are two types of aortic valve surgery: aortic valve repair and aortic valve replacement.
NHCS performed 117 isolated valve surgeries in 2009 with a mortality rate of 4.27%. The mean mortality over the period of 2004 to 2009 was 3.19%; Europe had a mean mortality of 3.40% from 2006 to 2008.
Definition: 30 days mortality refers to those patients who died within 30 days of their first operative date (in-hospital or after discharge). The above data applied to residents only.
References:
- Bridgewater.B, et al. (2010). The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Fourth EACTS Adult Cardiac Surgical Database Report 2010. Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Dendrite Clinical Systems Ltd.
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