Mid-term follow-up and outcomes of patients with prosthetic heart valves: a single-centre experience

Background Patients with prosthetic heart valves (PHV) require long-term follow-up, usually within a physiologist led heart valve surveillance clinic. These clinics are well established providing safe and effective patient care. The disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic on services has increased wait times thus we undertook a service evaluation to better understand the patients currently within the service and PHV related complications. Methods A clinical service evaluation of the heart valve surveillance clinic was undertaken to assess patient demographics, rates of complications and patient outcomes in patients who had undergone a PHV intervention at our institute between 2010 and 2020. Results A total of 294 patients (mean age at time of PHV intervention: 71 ± 12 years, 68.7% male) were included in this service evaluation. Follow-up was 5.9 ± 2.7 years (range: 10 years). 37.1% underwent baseline transthoracic echo (TTE) assessment and 83% underwent annual TTE follow-up. Significant valve related complications were reported in 20 (6.8%) patients. Complications included a change in patient functional status secondary to significant PHV regurgitation (0.3%) or stenosis (0.3%), PHV thrombosis (0.3%) or infective endocarditis (3.7%). Significant valve related complications resulted in ten hospital admission (3.4%), two re-do interventions (0.6%), and four deaths (1.3%). Conclusions This service evaluation highlights the large number of patients requiring ongoing surveillance. Only a small proportion of patients develop significant PHV related complications resulting in a low incidence of re-do interventions and deaths..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Echo Research and Practice - 9(2022), 1 vom: 06. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bennett, Sadie [VerfasserIn]
Demetriades, Polyvios [VerfasserIn]
Banks, Keely [VerfasserIn]
Tafuro, Jacopo [VerfasserIn]
Oatham, Rosie [VerfasserIn]
Griffiths, Timothy [VerfasserIn]
Oxley, Cheryl [VerfasserIn]
Clews, Sally [VerfasserIn]
Heatlie, Grant [VerfasserIn]
Kwok, Chun Shing [VerfasserIn]
Duckett, Simon [VerfasserIn]

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Echocardiography
Patient outcomes
Prosthetic heart valves

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© The Author(s) 2022

doi:

10.1186/s44156-022-00001-w

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OLC2130798144