Heart surgery by the locals in resource-limited settings: The experience from Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In developing countries, despite its demand is high, heart surgery is not always accessible to the neediest patients. We aimed to describe the early outcomes of heart surgeries that were performed by a local cardiac surgical team in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Methods

Data were collected through chart abstraction of patients who underwent heart surgery from the period of June 2017 to July 2021 by the same local cardiac surgical team at 3 centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences for Windows version 20.0.

Results

A total of 290 patients who underwent heart surgery during the specified period were included in the study. Of the total, 192 patients underwent valve surgery (177 were patients with rheuma

SUBMITTER: Agwar FD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9390689 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature