Contemporary prevalence and outcomes of rheumatic mitral valve surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Rheumatic mitral valve disease is often viewed as a historic disease in North America with limited contemporary data. We hypothesized that rheumatic pathology remains common and has worse short-term outcomes and higher resource utilization compared to other mitral valve pathologies.

Method

All patients undergoing mitral valve repair or replacement (2011-2019) were extracted from a regional Society of Thoracic Surgeons database. Resource utilization metrics included inflation-adjusted hospital costs. Patients were stratified by mitral valve pathology for univariate analysis.

Result

Out of the 6625 mitral valve procedures, 835 (12.6%) were from rheumatic disease, a proportion that incrementally increased over time (+0.39% per year, p = .032). Among 19 hospital

SUBMITTER: Hawkins RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9303441 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature