30-day Outcome:
A reoperative procedure within 30 days was performed on two patients
after repair with a diagnosis of systolic anterior motion (SAM) of
mitral valve and chordae tendineae rupture. Both underwent a valve
replacement on the 1st and 6thpostoperative day respectively. No reoperation was performed in the
replacement group (p=0.5). We observed no major adverse cerebrovascular
events and a single case of mesenteric ischemia in both groups.
Operative mortality was defined as death within 30 days after surgery or
during the same hospitalization (14, 15). We observed no significant
difference in 30-day mortality rates between the comparing groups. Two
patients in MVRe and 5 patients in MVRp (3.1% versus 7.8%, p=0.44)
passed away in the early hospital stay. Both patients in MVRe died due
to postoperative cardiogenic shock and in MVRp one patient died with
septic shock, one patient with mesenteric ischemia and the other
patients demised with cardiogenic shock