• Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi · Nov 1997

    Case Reports

    [A surgical case report--combined valvular disease in a 77-year-old woman with multi-organ dysfunction].

    • Y Kurimoto and M Inaoka.
    • Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, Hakodate Goryoukaku Hospital, Japan.
    • Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi. 1997 Nov 1;45(11):1866-9.

    AbstractA 77-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with congestive hepatic dysfunction and combined valvular disease. In addition to aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, and tricuspid regurgitation, multi-organ dysfunction consisting of hepatic cirrhosis, pulmonary dysfunction and renal dysfunction were found. In consideration of the patient's anxiety for surgical treatment, we performed aortic valve replacement, open mitral commissurotomy and tricuspid annuloplasty. Although the patient required hemofiltration for 2 days and an assist of catecholamines for 1 month, she improved better and was discharged at 2 months after surgery. As preoperative assessment of preliminary function of other organs is difficult in the elderly, indications for surgery and optimal surgical procedures must be investigated in each case.

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