Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Dec 2018
Mid-term result of atrioventricular valve replacement in patients with a single ventricle.
Atrioventricular valve replacement is the last option to treat the atrioventricular valve regurgitation in single ventricle. This study investigates the mid-term outcomes of the atrioventricular valve replacement based on the Japan Cardiovascular Surgery Database registry. ⋯ Valve replacement for uncontrollable atrioventricular valve regurgitation in single ventricular circulation was associated with a moderately high risk of death, redo replacement and pacemaker implantation, whereas valve replacement at a later period and with a larger prosthetic valve size was associated with low mortality.