Open AccessImpact of preoperative pulmonary arterial hypertension on early and late outcomes in patients undergoing valve surgery for rheumatic heart disease
Author(s) -
Deepak Borde,
Balaji Asegaonkar,
Sujit Khade,
Manish Puranik,
Antony George,
Shreedhar Joshi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/ija.ija_374_18
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary hypertension , cardiology , pulmonary artery , incidence (geometry) , cardiac surgery , clinical endpoint , retrospective cohort study , blood pressure , surgery , physics , clinical trial , optics
There is conflicting evidence on adverse effect of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) on outcomes after cardiac surgery for rheumatic heart disease (RHD). The authors studied Indian patients with RHD and preoperative PAH, who undergo cardiac surgery with a hypothesis that they have poor short and long-term outcomes.