[Indications, risk factors, specialities and after-care of surgical treatment for cardiac and thoracic vascular diseases].
Despite a known high risk and complexity in the operative therapy of cardio-thoracic patients, cardiac surgery is medical routine activity today. The German Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery regularly analyses the more than 100.000 cases a year in Germany. Fixing procedural statics, it gives us the knowledge of individual risk factors and success rates for surgical therapy of our patients.Following we want to shortly summarize indications, risk factors, specialities and after-care of surgical treatment for cardiac and thoracic vascular diseases in adults.
Jörg
J
Hoffmann
Ivan
I
Aleksic
Thorsten M
TM
Smul
Rainer G
RG
Leyh
D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000628:therapy; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery; D005858:Germany; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D012042:Registries; D012307:Risk Factors; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*