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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1987; 10(4):255-260

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1987.10.4.255

Original Article

Clinical Experience of Cardiovascular Surgery

Young Sik Park, Kwang Ho Kim
Corresponding author: Kwang Ho Kim. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Ewha Womans University Hospital, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1987. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

164 cases of cardiovascular surgery were performed at Ewha Womans University Hospital from March 1982 to October 1987. There were 119 cases of open heart surgery and 45 cases non open heart surgery. There were 112 congenital cardiac anomalies and 50 acquired heart diseases. Congenital cardiac anomalies were 35 PDA, 29 VSD, 21 TOF, 13 ASD, 3 ECD, 2 MR and 9 other rare anomalies. Acquired heart diseases were 24 mitral valvular diseases, 7 aortic valvular diseases, 14 multiple valvular diseases and 5 other rare diseases. We had 21 operative mortalities and 18 complications.