Heart operations statistics
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My 76 year old grandmother is undergoing valve replacement surgury and I was wondering what the suvival rates and complication statistics generally speaking are for immediately postoperative and for the following months and years? Can you refer me to a web page or do you know?
With children there is usually two operations, the second operation to account for the growth factor of a child.
Scarring of the aortic valve due to rheumatic fever as a child or young adult can cause a serious heart problem (i.e. heart valves). The condition can dilate the left ventricle and cause an arrhythmia (irregular heartbeats) and cardiac arrest. The valve regurgitation decreases the amount of blood pumped into circulation with each heartbeat and the heart increases in size to compensate.
My father is 60 years old and had a heart attack last week. When diagnosed he had 80% blockage in one artery and a minor block in other artery. His Coloestrol, sugar and BP is perfect. Doc though is suggesting a bypass, can anybody suggest that is it the last remedy or we can have some scope through medicines?
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I have a coronary calcium score of 577 and my heart arteries are serverly calcified. Are open heart operations (bypasses) with good prognosis with type 1 diabetics? I have been on insulin for 32 years since I was 17.
Im 18yrs old and I had an operation to correct a sub aortic stinosis which didnt work at theage of 2 and a half, and around the time of me 12 birthday, i had thae ross precedure done, and obviously, im still alive, fingers crossed all will be ok with you, im going to have a lot more operations on my heart so im sure you, or whoever it is having their second op will be ok.
How do you find out the number of heart operations or procedures your doctor has performed and his/her success rate?
The doctors insisted that I do a bypass surgery, but I refused and since then I had chest pains- which some doctors say it has to do with muscles and not the heart . Statistics say that the heart patients risk to die is the same if they take good medicine or do operations. I chose to take medicines. I am not going to be operated on.
Statistics? Forget about statistics. They are only an average taken of everyone who has the disease. Don't forget, if you are younger than most people. Most of the people listed in the statistics are elderly people who have many other things wrong with them. I take it you are otherwise healthy. I don't think you would fall into the same category as those in the statistics. With modern medicine, procedures and advances, you could live 20 years or more easily.
I am just wondering if you know how big the risk is for an operation like this? Do many of these operations happen? Because i have had a few operations before, does that greatly increase my risk this time (due to scar tissue around the heart)? I live in Australia and my specialist here gave me the talk of it being a high risk operation, etc.
Re-operations are generally thought to be higher-risk than first-time operations, but some of the top centers (on the order of Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, Texas Heart, Mass General, etc.) are showing re-op mortality and morbidity stats that are very similar to first-time stats. The skill of the surgeon plays a huge, huge role. Your daughter needs an expert surgeon. In my opinion, she should try to go to a major heart center for this operation, even if she has to travel.
no comment on the efficacy of the CABG, but statistics show there are unnecessary implants and CABG operations where medication could have been the appropriate treatment.
I've had SVT ablation operations about 10 years ago with the symptoms of racing heart which was a great success. but the last 2 years I've felt dizzy/foggy and a sore neck, which last for a couple of days sometime more, then nothing for a month, then returns. Could it be SVT again with different symptoms.
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