Current status of cardiac valve replacement.
By careful and aggressive managements throughout the follow-up period, the actuarial survival rate of the patients who underwent valve replacement was improved to 88.5% after 5 years and 83% after 10 years. Hereafter, it is expected that the over-all survival rate will be improved much more by the progress of the treatment in the early stage following the operation.
D000328:Adult; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006351:Heart Valves / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery; D012306:Risk; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000601:surgery