Early recovery of left ventricular function after stentless versus stented aortic valve replacement for pure aortic stenosis and severe cardiac dysfunction (original) (raw)

Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2001

Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate early recovery of systolic function after stentless aortic valve replacement (AVR) versus stented AVR. Fifty-four consecutive patients with pure aortic stenosis and impaired left ventricular function (LVEF < or = 35%) were studied retrospectively. Aortic regurgitation, concomitant valvular or coronary artery surgery, atrial fibrillation, and a previous AVR were exclusion criteria. Twenty-two patients (mean age, 70.0 +/- 6.5 years) received a stentless bioprosthesis and 32 (mean age, 58.9 +/- 6.2 years, P =.031 between groups) a mechanical or stented biologic valve. Patients underwent echocardiography preoperatively, at discharge, at 6 months, and at 1 year after surgery. At 6 months, analysis of variance demonstrated significant differences between groups in fractional shortening measured at the endocardium and midwall fractional shortening (<0.001), velocity of circumferential shortening (P <.001) ejection fraction (P =.02), left ventr...

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