Open AccessSurgical Repair of post-infarction ventricular septal rupture: Determinants of operative mortality and survival outcome analysis
Author(s) -
Muhammad Yasir Khan,
Tariq Waqar,
Perisa Gul Qaisrani,
Adnan Khan,
Muhammad Khan,
Haider Zaman,
Anjum Jalal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
pakistan journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1682-024X
pISSN - 1681-715X
DOI - 10.12669/pjms.341.13906
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiogenic shock , ejection fraction , myocardial infarction , univariate analysis , cardiology , surgery , confounding , shock (circulatory) , odds ratio , mortality rate , heart failure , multivariate analysis
Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is one of the fatal complications of myocardial infarction (MI). Surgery provides the maximum survival benefit. Our objective was to investigate the risk factors of surgical mortality and to do the survival analysis in the past six years at our hospital.