Unilateral Pulmonary Edema After Minimal-invasive Mitral Valve Surgery

University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pulmonary Edema

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02655094

IN-MIC-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Unilateral pulmonary edema after minimal-invasive mitral valve surgery is a rare but in some cases severe complications, sometimes causing extracorporeal life support. The investigators have observed over several years 5 cases of instantaneous postoperative severe pulmonary edema. This is a retrospective analysis of over 200 minimal-invasive mitral valve surgery procedure.

Full description

Unilateral pulmonary edema after minimal-invasive mitral valve surgery is a rare but in some cases severe complications, sometimes causing extracorporeal life support. The investigators have observed over several years 5 cases of instantaneous postoperative severe pulmonary edema. After having studied the available literature on this particular topic the investigators have decided to prepare a retrospective analysis of over 200 minimal-invasive mitral valve surgery procedure focusing on radiological and clinical signs of unilateral pulmonary edema.

Enrollment: 256 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >= 18 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• urgent surgery