Abstract Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains the most common cardiovascular disease in young adults and adolescents in need of heart surgery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The mean age of patients is 20-25 years, often much younger. By contrast, the few patients with chronic RHD in develo...
Abstract Background: Mitral valve repair in paediatric patients with chronic rheumatic heart disease is superior to valve replacement and has been used with good results. Objective: To identify predictors of unfavourable outcomes in children and adolescents submitted to surgical mitral valvuloplasty se...
Resumen: Objetivo: Demostrar que la resección quirúrgica de la orejuela izquierda en los pacientes con enfermedad reumática mitral y fibrilación auricular persistente de larga evolución disminuye la posibilidad de embolia cerebral. Asimismo, esto también elimina la necesidad de anticoagulación o...
Abstract Objective: To assess heart rhythm and predictive factors associated with sinus rhythm after one year in patients with rheumatic valve disease undergoing concomitant surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. Operative mortality, survival and occurrence of stroke after one year were also evaluat...
Abstract Introduction: The result of surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation remains controversial, although prospective and randomized studies have shown significant differences in the return to sinus rhythm in patients treated with ablation versus control group. Surgery of the Labyrinth, proposed by ...
No Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, as valvoplastias percutâneas para as valvas mitral e aórtica tiveram início em agosto de 1987. Foram realizados 37 procedimentos, sendo 26 para a mitral (VMP) e 1 para aórtica (VAP). Nas 26 VMP, obteve-se sucesso 14 vezes, tendo 4 complicaçoes. Em 3 pacie...
Foram estudados 26 pacientes portadores de doenç a mitral reumática submetidos a troca valvar por bioprótese, quanto à sua evoluçäo clínica, eletrocardiográfi, radiológica e ecocardiográfica. O tempo médio de implante foi de 53,65 meses. Na avaliaçäo clínica observamos melhora funcional em ...
