Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair with Artificial Chordae: Insights from a 6-Year Single-Center Study
Table 1
Preoperative characteristics.
All repair (N = 90)
Simple repair (N = 41)
Intermediate-to-complex repair (N = 49)
value
Age (year)
50.5 ± 12.9
52.3 ± 12.3
49.1 ± 13.3
0.244
Sex (male)
70 (77.8)
33 (80.5)
37 (75.5)
0.619
BMI (kg/m2)
22.7 ± 2.6
22.8 ± 2.5
22.6 ± 2.7
0.660
BSA (m2)
1.67 ± 0.17
1.70 ± 0.17
1.65 ± 0.17
0.231
NYHA classification
0.710
I-II
80 (88.9)
37 (90.2)
43 (87.8)
III-IV
10 (11.1)
4 (9.8)
6 (12.2)
Atrial fibrillation
9 (10.0)
4 (9.8)
5 (10.2)
>0.999
Hypertension
43 (47.8)
21 (51.2)
22 (44.9)
0.672
Diabetes
9 (10.0)
3 (7.3)
6 (12.2)
0.502
Dyslipidemia
12 (13.3)
6 (14.6)
6 (12.2)
0.765
COPD
3 (3.3)
2 (4.9)
1 (2.0)
0.590
Euroscore II (%)
1.12 ± 0.99
1.12 ± 1.01
1.12 ± 0.99
0.998
Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation or n (%). BMI, body mass index; BSA, body surface area; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NYHA, New York Heart Association.
