A hundred-and-one patients were studied in six years, with 100% of follow-up. Among them, 36 were male and 65 female, with an age range of two to 62 years (mean 28 ± 16.4%). Fifty seven of them (56.4%) underwent just a mitral surgery, the others and other associated procedures, as tricuspid plastic (9.9%), coronary artery revascularization (4.0%), among others. Hospital mortality was not registered. The late mortality rate was 2% for AVC hemorrhagic after five years, and septicemia during the first year. The non-fatal complications were represented by endocarditis in two patients (2%), treated and cured; and a mitral restenosis after plastic. The actuarial study revealed a survival rate of 79.0 ± 17.7% and rates of without complications, reoperation and thromboembolism of 76.3 ± 17.8, 80.0 ± 17.9 and 100%, respectively. The echocardiography results registered 89% of the patients with evolution to absence of insufficiency from the remaining 11%, 7.4% showed discrete mitral insufficiency, 2.4% moderate and 1.2% important. Under the NYHA classification, the patients functionally went from class III (83.3%) and IV (16.2%) to class I (33.3%), II (60.65), III (4.1%) and IV (2.0%). The authors conclude that the pericardium ring is flexible, it fits perfectly in the valvar ring, does not cause hemolysis, and shows completely endotelization after a certain time.
heart valves, mitral; heart valves prostheses