Abstract
During the past decades, the cardiovascular community was faced with an ageing patient population and thus with an increased number of elderly patients referred for cardiac surgery. This is also perceptible for mitral valve (MV) disease, as gold standard treatment is MV-repair or replacement. Satisfactory results were proven in octogenarians, but comparative data of both treatments is scarce.
Highlights
Background/Introduction During the past decades, the cardiovascular community was faced with an ageing patient population and with an increased number of elderly patients referred for cardiac surgery. This is perceptible for mitral valve (MV) disease, as gold standard treatment is MV-repair or replacement
Aims/Objectives We reviewed results after either MV-repair or replacement in octogenarians treated at our centre over the past 20 years
Our in-hospital database was explored for patients who had MV surgery; this yielded 1736 patients treated between 1994 and 2014. 155 patients (8.9%) were aged ≤80 years and received MV-repair (n = 106,68.4%) or replacement (MVR: n = 49,31.6%)
Summary
Background/Introduction During the past decades, the cardiovascular community was faced with an ageing patient population and with an increased number of elderly patients referred for cardiac surgery. Mitral valve repair versus mitral valve replacement in octogenarians - review of long-term outcomes in the past two decades Miriam Silaschi*, Sanjay Chaubey, Habib Khan, Mohsin Uzzaman, Mrinal Singh, Max Baghai, Olaf Wendler From World Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons 25th Anniversary Congress, Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK.
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