Population
38 patients who had undergone surgical repair of post-infarction ventricular septal rupture, mean age 65.7 ±…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
10 years
Authors
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High 30-day mortality in post-infarction VSR repair warrants cautious patient selection; leaves open optimal timing and adjunctive strategies.
Surgical repair of post-infarction VSR carries a high operative mortality, with NYHA class and post-operative renal replacement therapy predicting early mortality, and concomitant CABG not improving survival.
Pang et al. (2013) studied this question.
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