Evaluation of Right Ventricular Function Post Mitral Valve Operations

Assiut University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Right Ventricular Dysfunction

Treatments: Device: Echocardiography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05620992

Right ventricular function

Details and patient eligibility

About

We aim to determine the function of Right ventricle post mitral valve surgeries in patients with pulmonary hypertension using transthoracic echocardiography3- and 6-months post-operatively to detect the effect of mitral valve surgeries over the RV function whether improving, deteriorating, or not changing at all.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who underwent mitral valve surgeries who also had pulmonary hypertension in the period between March 2019 and March 2022 in Assiut university heart hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who underwent mitral valve surgeries with normal pulmonary pressure. Patients who had other valve surgeries besides mitral as aortic and/or tricuspid valve surgeries. Patients had mitral valve surgeries with other heart conditions that needed another intervention in the same session as CABG for IHD.