III-18 Surgical treatment for combined valvular disease

The surgical treatment of acquired valvular disease.

Surgical Treatment of Acquired Valvular Disease

IT IS an obvious fact that acquired valvular deformities may impose a serious mechanical burden upon the heart. Over the years it has been logical to hope that definitive surgical technics would be developed to alter these defects so as to restore normal cardiac function. However plausible the need, the evolution of surgery for acquired valvular disease was delayed by the fear that the heart co...

Surgical treatment of congenital valvular aortic stenosis.

Twenty-two patients with congenital valvular aortic stenosis were surgically treated between 1967 and July 1975. Five (23%) were under 1 year of age (group I) and 17 (77%) were between 2 and 24 years (group II). All infants exhibited severe congestive heart failure and electrocardiographi (ECG) evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) with strain pattern. In group II, angina was present i...

Surgical management of valvular heart disease 2004.

Risk for Valvular Heart Disease After Treatment for Hodgkin Lymphoma

BACKGROUND Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) survivors are at increased risk of developing valvular heart disease (VHD). We evaluated the determinants of the risk and the radiation dose-response. METHODS A case-control study was nested in a cohort of 1852 five-year HL survivors diagnosed at ages 15 to 41 years and treated between 1965 and 1995. Case patients had VHD of at least moderate severity as their...