• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.858-861
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• 2003

대동맥판막질환에 동반된 허혈성 심질환의 원인은 대부분 전신적인 동맥경화의 진행에 따른 것이며, 심한 석회화가 초래된 대동맥판협착증 환자에서 대동맥판막의 일부가 떨어져 나와서 관상동맥 색전증 및 협착을 유발시킨 예는 매우 드물다. 저자들은 흉부압박감을 주소로 내원한 73세 여자 환자에서 심초음파검사와 관상동맥조영술을 시행하여 중증 대동맥판협착증과 우관상동맥의 색전증을 진단하고 대동맥판치환술과 우관상동맥의 색전제거술 및 관상동맥성형술을 시행하였던 예를 치험하였다. 수술 후 우관상동맥 색전의 원인 물질이 대동맥판막으로부터 떨어져 나온 석회성 판막조직으로 판단되었기에 이와 관련된 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.322-327
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• 2018

Background: This study evaluated the early and long-term outcomes of surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) in elderly patients in the era of transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Methods: Between 2001 and 2018, 94 patients aged ${\geq}75years$ underwent isolated AVR with stented bioprosthetic valves for aortic valve stenosis (AS). The main etiologies of AS were degenerative (n=63) and bicuspid (n=21). The median follow-up duration was 40.7 months (range, 0.6-174 months). Results: Operative mortality occurred in 2 patients (2.1%) and paravalvular leak occurred in 1 patient. No patients required permanent pacemaker insertion after surgery. Late death occurred in 11 patients. The overall survival rates at 5 and 10 years were 87.2% and 65.1%, respectively. The rates of freedom from valve-related events at 5 and 10 years were 94.5% and 88.6%, respectively. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) score (p=0.013) and chronic kidney disease (p=0.030) were significant factors affecting long-term survival. The minimal p-value approach demonstrated that an STS score of 3.5% was the most suitable cut-off value for predicting long-term survival. Conclusion: Surgical AVR for elderly AS patients may be feasible in terms of early mortality and postoperative complications, particularly paravalvular leak and permanent pacemaker insertion. The STS score and chronic kidney disease were associated with long-term outcomes after AVR in the elderly.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.1023-1030
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• 1999

This is a retrospective study of 42 pregnancies from 33 women with prosthetic heart valves who were on anticoagulation regimen prior to or during their pregnancy. Material and Method: Of the 17 women with bioprosthesis, 15 had 21 pregnancies following cessation of the anticoagulation therapy which resulted in the delivery of 20 healthy babies and 1 abortion. Remaining 2 had 3 pregnancies maintained with heparin, resulting in 2 healthy babies and 1 spontaneous abortion. Result: Among 16 women with mechanical heart valves, there were 7 pregnancies during which warfarin was used and this was associated with 4 fetal wastages(2 therapeutic abortion, 1 spontaneous abortion and 1 stillbirth with cerebral hemorrhage). However, in pregnancies where heparin was used, there was no fetal wastage. A patient who did not take anticoagulant for the first trimester and took warfarin for the remaining period and a patient who did not take anticoagulant during pregnancy delivered normal babies. There was an other fetal wastage in a patient on anti-platelet therapy for the first trimester and warfarin therapy for the remaining periods. There was 1 minor petechial complication in a heparin administered group. Conclusion: The study indicates that woman with bioprosthetic heart valves can go through pregnancy without undue risks or complications. On the other hand, the use of warfarin during pregnancy in women with mechanical heart valves, was shown to be associated with unacceptable high risk for the fetus. However, in the same group of women, judicious use of heparin during pregnancy was accompanied by a much reduced risk. The safety and adequate therapeutic range of heparin usage under such circumstances are subject to further studies.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.479-487
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• 1988

Valve replacements in 82 children, aging up to 15 years[mean 11.67 years] were done at Seoul National University Hospital during 13 years period from 1974 to 1986. The patients were composed of 5] males and 31 females and 50 patients had acquired heart disease and 32 patients congenital heart disease. 75 patients received single valve replacements, 6 patients double valve replacements, 1 patient triple valve replacement, and among all of them, 11 patients redo-replacements. The bioprosthetic valves have been applied to 58 patients and prosthetic valve to 24 patients and the latter was the main artificial valve since 1984. Among the 69 patients who had definite post-operative records, the overall mortality was 27.5%[20.3% was early mortality and 7.2% late mortality] and the overall mortality was lowered to 4.3% since 1984. There were early post-operative complication rate of 26.1% and late complication rate 34.8%, and among the latter, the valve failure rate was 11.4% patient-year, and the thrombo-embolism rate 1.76%/patient-year. 55 patients among the survivals after post-operative 1 month, were received follow-up with various anticoagulating medication for total 2046 patient-months[mini-mum 1 month to maximum 90 month, mean 37.2*25.44 months] and actuarial survival rate was 82*8% at 5 years and valve failure free and thrombo-embolic free survival rate were 61*8% and 90*3% respectively. And among them, valve failure free survival `rate of tissue valve were 91*6% at post-operative 2 years, 78*3% at 3 years, 59*9% at 4 years, 54*10% at 5 years, 53*15% at 6 years, so markedly decreased at 3-5 years post-operatively. These results suggest that cardiac valve replacement in children have been effective therapeutic method though various problems are still remained, and the choice of valve should be prosthetic valve mainly due to its durability at the present.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.156-160
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• 2010

Bentall-DeBono 수술은 대동맥근부 치환술의 대표적인 수술방법이다. 환자에게 일생동안 항응고제 투여가 불가능한 경우 조직판막으로 Bentall 수술을 시행하는 것이 유용한 방법이다. 그러나 조직판막의 변성으로 재수술이 필요한 경우 그 수술은 매우 복잡해 질 수 있다. 이런 이유 때문에 재수술이 쉬운 조직판막 Bentall 수술이 보고되었다. 저자들은 대동맥판막을 보존할 수 없어 Bentall 수술이 필요한 2환자들에서 변형식 벤탈술식에 의해 조직판막을 이용한 대동맥근부 치환술을 시행하였으며, 이 술식은 재수술에 대비할 수 있는 간단한 수술로 생각된다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.498-505
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• 1983

It has been over 20 years since successful operations of Cardiac valves at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, college of medicine, Yonsei University. About six hundreds of patients with severely symptomatic valvular heart disease have had valve operations with complete loss or sharp decrease in their cardiac symptoms since 1956. As the number of cardiac patient increases, reoperation on valves assumes greater importance. To define the group of patients undergoing reoperations on valves and the factors influencing their survival, we have reviewed our experiences of the reoperation on valves at the Yonsei University, Severance Hospital. This is a report of 29 cases which was undergone secondary or more surgery for valvular heart disease from 1966 to 1983. The primary operations includes 159 cases of open heart surgery from 1966 to 1975 and 476 cases from 1976 to march, 1983. The secondary operations are classified into groups of secondary valvuloplasty or valvotomy [8 cases], prosthetic valve replacement following valvuloplasty or valvotomy [14 cases] and prosthetic valve rereplacement [2 case] for such as calcification, degeneration and perforation of the cusps and paravalvular leakage, of the bioprosthetic valves. The leading indication for reoperation of mitral valve was restenosis or stenoinsufficiency, The indications of aortic valve replacement was active bacterial endocarditis, medically uncontrollable prosthetic endocarditis or paravalvular leakage. Overall death rate of the reoperation was 17.4% [5 death among the 29 patients] and the leading causes of death were myocardial failure, arrhythmia, cerebral embolism, acute renal failure due to low output syndrome. And it was followed by sepsis associated with active prosthetic endocarditis. The death rate of reoperation was 4.3% in the elective cases except urgent cases and the death rate of overall cardiac valve except reoperation cases was 4.1% in the last two years. Although the general mortality of reoperation was high, both mortality rates were comparable except emergency cases due to urgent preoperative patient’s condition.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.369-380
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• 1981

In this department 504 cases of valve replacement were done since 1968 to the end of October 1981. Since October 31, 1978 to the end of October 1981 ,333 Ionescu-Shiley bovine pericardial xenograft bioprosthetic cardiac valves were replaced in 265 patients. There were 149 males and 116 female. Ages ranged from 2 to 63 years with 25 cases under 15 years of age. Among 265 cases of Ionescu valve replacement there were 157 MVR, 36 VAR, 6 TVR, 45 MVR+ AVR, 16 MVR+TVR and 5 MVR+AVR+TVR cases with mortality of 5.7%, 8.3%, 16.7%, 8.9%, 18.8% and 20% for each group respectively. Over all mortality rate in 265 Ionescu valve replacement cases was 7.9% with 21 total deaths. Main causes of operative deaths were due to LCOS in 7, bleeding in 5, arrhythmia in 3, air embolism in 2,and heart block in 2 cases. There were 12 late complications with 6 deaths. Over all long-term survival rate was 89.8%. MVR showed the highest long-term survival rate with 92.4%, and MVR+AVR+TVR the lower with 80% lower with 80%.Average follow-up period was 14 month duration. Twenty five congenital anomaly cases were operated with Ionescu-valve replacement that consisted of 7 VSD+AI, and 5 Ebstein anomaly cases with over all operative mortality of 16% and late mortality of 14.3% among 21 operative survivors. There were 25 Ionescu valve replacement cases in pediatric patients under the age of 15 years, with 4 operative deaths. Fourteen MVR, 7 AVR, and 3 TVR cases were found. Even though long-term follow-up study was short in postoperative period with total of 33~.0 months among 244 operative survivors ranging one to 36 months, the late survivors showed beneficial long-term results two thromboembolic episodes in 244 patients were found. More cases and longer term follow-up study are warranted for valve replacement in pediatric and TVR cases with Ionescu-valves which have advantageous hemodynamic structures compared with other bio-prosthetic heart valves.

• Korean Circulation Journal
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.43-56
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• 2024

Background and Objectives: The therapeutic strategy for inflammation and degenerative calcification is of utmost importance for bioprosthetic heart valve (BHV) implanted patients. The purpose of this study was to compare the anti-inflammatory and anti-calcification effects of Entelon150^® (grape seed extract), losartan, and rosuvastatin, in a rabbit model of intravascular BHV leaflet implantation in bovine pericardium. Methods: A total of 28 rabbits were implanted with BHV leaflet in the external jugular veins. The Entelon150^® group was administered 7.7 mg/kg Entelon150^® twice daily for 6 weeks after surgery. The losartan and rosuvastatin groups received 5.14 mg/kg and 1 mg/kg, respectively, once per day. The control group received 1 ml of saline once daily. And then, calcium concentration was measured in the implanted BHV, and histological and molecular analyses were performed on the surrounding tissues. Results: The calcium content of the implanted tissue in the Entelon150^® group (0.013±0.004 mg/g) was lower than that in the control group (0.066±0.039 mg/g) (p=0.008). The losartan (0.024±0.016 mg/g, p=0.032) and rosuvastatin (0.022±0.011 mg/g, p=0.032) groups had lower calcium content than the control group, and higher tendency than the Entelon150^® group. Immunohistochemistry revealed that the expressions of bone morphogenic protein 2 (BMP2), S-100, and angiotensin II type 1 receptor in the Entelon150^® group showed lower tendency than those in the control group. The protein expression levels of BMP2 were reduced in the Entelon150^® group compared with those in the control group. Conclusions: Entelon150^® exhibited a significant effect, similar to other drugs, in reducing calcification and inflammation in the intravascular bovine pericardium.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.1023-1030
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• 1998

연구배경 : 인체내 이식된 생체조직들은 석회화 변성으로 인해 그 내구성이 단축된다. 이러한 조직들을 이식하기전에 글루타르알데하이드(GA)로 고정후 sulphonated polyethyleneoxide(PEO-SO3)를 결합시키고 또한 조직내 의 잔유 알데히드기를 제거함으로써 석회화에 대한 내구성을 향상시킬 수 있다 재료 및 방법 : PEO-SO3 처리법과 잔유 알데히드기 제거의 석회화 방지 효과를 알아보기 위하여 GA 고정 후 PEO-SO3로 처리한 소 심낭 첨포를 잔유 알데히드기 제거를 위해 무균 생리식염수에 보존한 saline 군과 0.65% GA 용액 에 보존한 GA군, 그리고 이미 상품화되어 임상에서 사용되고 있는 product군을 8마리 개의 경동맥과 대퇴동 맥 및 복막에 이식하여 6주 후 적출하여 칼슘량 및 병리조직 소견에 대해 알아보았다. 결과 : 경동맥에서 채취한 조직첨포의 칼슘량은 saline군에서 GA군과 product군에 비해 유의하게 적었다 (saline; 2.89$\pm$0.31 vs. GA; 6.14$\pm$1.08 vs. product; 22.82$\pm$5.00 mg/g; p< .05). 대퇴동맥과 복막 이식 첨포에서의 칼슘량 또한 saline군에서 다른 두 군에 비해 가장 적었으나 통계적인 유의성은 없었다. 한편 병리조직 검사에서는 GA군에서 다른 두 군에 비해 조직의 석회화로 인한 변성 파괴가 심하였다. 결론 : 본 연구에서 소 심낭 조직 첨포와 결합한 PEO-SO3는 석회화를 감소시키고 또한 조직내 잔유 알데히드기 를 생리식염수로 세척하여 제거함으로써 항석회화 효과를 증가시킬 수 있었다. 결론적으로 PEO-SO3로 처리한 소 심낭 조직은 석회화 변성에 대한 강한 저항성을 보임으로써 심혈관 첨포나 인공 조직 판막 개발 에 도움를 줄 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.695-702
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• 2008

배경: 심장 판막 수술에서 조직판막 혹은 기계판막의 선택은 중요한 문제이고, 조직판막의 내구성이 그 결정에 주요한 역할을 한다. 본 연구는 승모판에서 조직판막 이식 후 중기 결과를 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 1989년 7월부터 2007년 8월까지 조직판막을 이용하여 승모판 치환술을 받은 모든 환자를 대상으로 하였다. 216명의 환자에서 236예의 수술을 시행하였으며 평균 연령은 $63{\pm}15$세, 남녀 비는 1 : 3이었다. 술 후 총 추적 관찰 기간은 760.2 patient-years, 평균 추적 관찰 기간은 $41.9{\pm}40.7$개월 ($0{\sim}212$개월)이었고, 외래 경과 기록과 의무 기록을 통해 후향적으로 분석하였다. 결과: 조기 사망은 18명(8.3%)이었고, 13명은 승모판 치환술과 다른 동반 수술을 같이 시행한 경우였다. 5년, 8년에서 생존율은 각각 $79.9{\pm}3.5%$, $65.5{\pm}5.5%$이었으며, 구조적 판막 손상으로부터의 5년, 8년 회피율(freedom from structural valve deterioration, SVD)은 각각 $96.2{\pm}2.2%$, $85.9{\pm}5.3%$이었다. 재수술의 5년, 8년 회피율(freedom from Reoperation)은 $96.0{\pm}1.7%$$, $90.4{\pm}4.2%$, 구조적 판막 손상으로 인한 재수술의 회피율(freedom from Reoperation for, SVD)은 $98.1{\pm}1.2%$$, $92.3{\pm}4.1%$이었다. 수술 전 위험인자의 다변량 분석에서 작은 판막(Valve size 25 and 27 mm)을 사용한 경우가 재수술의 유의한 위험 인자였으며, 중등도 이상의 좌심실 기능부전(Left ventricle ejection fraction, LVEF < 40%)은 구조적 판막 손상과 사망률의 유의한 위험인자였다. 결론: 승모판의 조직판막 치환술에서 생존율과 재수술의 회피율은 만족할 만한 중기 성적을 보여주나, 구조적 판막 손상의 회피율은 비교적 낮은 성적을 보였다. 수술 후 8년을 전후해서 급격한 손상의 진행을 보이므로, 8년을 기준으로 해서 잦은 경과 관찰과 심초음파 검사는 판막 손상의 조기 발견에 도움이 될 것이며, 더 많은 환자 수에서 보다 장기적인 연구가 필요할 것이다.