Surgical Treatment of Mitral Stenosis

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A total of 54 patients with mitral stenosis were treated in the Dept.of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Chonnam National University Hospital, during the 17-year period from Jan., 1962 to June, 1978. There were 35 men and 19 women with sex ratio of 1.8 : 1. The age of the patient varied widely from 15 years of the youngest to 48 years of the oldest. Preoper ative functional levels according to N.Y.H.A. classification were class II in 19% of cases, class III in 69%, and class IV in 12%. 53 patients were underwent closed operations; 43 cases had closed digital mitral commissurotomy and 10 cases had closed dilator mitral commissurotomy, Hospital mortality was I case (1. 9%). Results of operations were good and excellent in 48cases(91%).Most of the survivors left hospital in a good and improved condition.