Decade-long mitral valve surgery trends and rheumatic heart disease: a review of mitral valve surgery in a large Chinese cardiovascular center | Zendy

Yuqing Jiao | Zendy; Tiange Luo | Zendy; Xu Meng | Zendy; Jiangang Wang | Zendy

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Decade-long mitral valve surgery trends and rheumatic heart disease: a review of mitral valve surgery in a large Chinese cardiovascular center

Author(s) -

Yuqing Jiao,

Tiange Luo,

Xu Meng,

Jiangang Wang

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

annals of palliative medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 2224-5839

pISSN - 2224-5820

DOI - 10.21037/apm-21-2005

Subject(s) - medicine , mitral valve , epidemiology , disease , heart disease , cardiac surgery , incidence (geometry) , cardiology , surgery , optics , physics

Despite being one of the few chronic secondary heart diseases that can be prevented, current epidemiological data on rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in China are unavailable. This study examined mitral valve (MV) surgery trends in a large Chinese cardiovascular center over the last 10 years and provided insight into the distribution of RHDs and their changes.

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