Enlargement of the Left Atrium Strongly Predicts Postoperative Mortality Following Heart Valve Surgery.
Khalid S IbrahimKhalid Ahmed KheirallahMahmoud A MegdadiPublished in: Vascular health and risk management (2022)
Enlargement of the left atrium has been studied extensively as a predictor of mortality and morbidity in different clinical situations, to the extent that some authors suggest adding it to risk stratification models. In this study, left atrial size >4 cm was found to strongly predict mortality after rheumatic heart valve surgery.
Keyphrases
- left atrial
- mitral valve
- atrial fibrillation
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- catheter ablation
- aortic valve
- heart failure
- left ventricular
- pulmonary artery
- vena cava
- aortic stenosis
- surgical site infection
- inferior vena cava
- risk factors
- patients undergoing
- multidrug resistant
- coronary artery
- acute coronary syndrome