J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 88(9): 1137-1139, 1987

Report on the annual meeting

SURGERY FOR POSTINFARCTION-MECHANICAL COMPLICATIONS

The Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Endo, Hiroshi Nishida, Akira Shiikawa, Sunao Watanabe, Hitoshi Koyanagi

From 1968 to 1986, 107 patients with postinfarction-mechanical complicatins were surgically treated. Hospital mortality : Ventricular aneurysm was 3/62 (4.8%), free wall rupture was 4/5 (80%), ventricular septal perforation was 6/29 (20.7%), papillary muscle rupture was 0/1 (0%), mitral valve dysfunction was 0/8 (0%) and pseudoaneurysm was 0/2 (0%). In this report, the patients with severe coronary heart disease were described from Surgical point of view.

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