title: Valve replacement for valvular heart disease with giant left ventricle.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discuss early efficacy of the cardiac patient with giant left ventricle underwent valve replacement.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty-five patients, who are suffering cardiac valve disease with giant left ventricle, underwent valve replacement. Among them, sixteen patients underwent aortic valve replacement; thirty patients underwent mitral valve replacement; nine patients underwent double valve replacement. All of them use mechanical heart valve.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The number of early death after operation was five. Two patients died of malignant arrhythmia; two died of intractable low cardiac output syndrome; the last one's mechanical valve lost its ability to function after operation and died of respiration-circulation failure after an emergency operation. The death rate was 9%. The remaining 55 patients were cured and their cardiac function was significantly improved.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The definite effective myocardial protection and perfect and detailed preoperative treatment can reduce the possibility of operative complications and death rate of this kind of patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Xuzhou, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China. zhangyanglaoshi@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: D-M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: W-L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: W-J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged