title: Combined aortic and mitral valve repair.
abstract: Six patients, median age 63.3 years (range, 54 to 68 years), underwent concomitant mitral and aortic valve repair from January 2000 to August 2001. Surgical reports and general clinical data were reviewed retrospectively. All patients had degenerative valvular disease, although one patient also had annuloaortic ectasia. There were no surgical complications. The 30 day survival rate was 100%, and the New York Heart Association classification score improved from 2.2 (range, 1 to 2) preoperative, to 1.0 (all patients) postoperatively (p = 0.03) As measured by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, the left ventricular end-diastolic diameter decreased from 6.0 cm (range, 5.4 to 6.3 cm) to 4.7 cm (range, 4.0 to 5.2 cm) and the left ventricular end-systolic diameter decreased from 3.7 cm (range, 3.4 to 4.1cm) to 3.1 cm (range, 2.9 to 3.7 cm). No patient developed endocarditis, thromboembolism or hemorrhage. There was no valve related morbidity during a 1 year follow up. Double valve repair is an acceptable alternative to valve replacement in selected patients with some types of valvular disease. Longer term follow up with greater numbers of patients is needed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Memorial Heart Center, Iwate Medical University, 1-2-1 Chuoudori, Morioka City, Iwate, Japan. t-kazui@pf6.so-net.ne.jp
authors.forename: Toshinobu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kazui
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kin
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Izumoto
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: Kazuaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: Kouhei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kawazoe
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass / Q000379:methods; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome