Computer-Based Analysis of Preoperative and Postoperative Prognostic Factors in 100 Patients with Combined Aortic and Mitral Valve Replacement
- Melvin, David B. M.D.
- Tecklenberg, Paul L. M.D.
- Hollingsworth, Jefferson F. M.D.
- Levine, Frederick H. M.D.
- Glancy, D. Luke M.D.
- Epstein, Stephen E. M.D.
- Morrow, Andrew G. M.D.
From 1963 to 1971, aortic and mitral valves were replaced in 100 patients; 22 died in hospital. Follow-up in survivors is 100%. Catheterization was performed preoperatively in 99 patients and postoperatively in 85% of survivors. The influence of 19 preoperative potential risk factors on hospital mortality, postoperative symptomatic improvement, and long-term survival (assessed by monthly cohort-adjusted survival tables) was determined. Long-term survival was also assessed by comparing average values of the various risk factors in patients surviving 1, 2, and 3 years with values in patients who died during these intervals. In addition, changes induced by operation were studied 6 months postoperatively and their value in predicting subsequent longevity assessed.
Significant (P < 0.05) findings were: a higher hospital mortality in patients with left atrial pressures ≥30 mm Hg or with fabric-covered valves; less postoperative symptomatic improvement in older patients; lower long-term survival rate in men and in patients with high left atrial, right atrial, pulmonary arterial, or right ventricular end-diastolic pressures. A decrease in radiographic heart size or a New York Heart Association class I or II status 6 months postoperatively was associated with a favorable subsequent prognosis. Postoperative hemodynamic values did not predict subsequent survival.