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