Baseline Characteristics and Operative Data
The baseline characteristics of the 25 patients in the progression group and the 119 patients in the non-progression group were compared in Table 1. The mean age of the 144 patients included in the study was 50.35±11.32 years, and most of these patients were female (n=85, 59.03%). The median follow-up time was 4.2 years. There were 13 patients with hypertension (9.0%), 14 patients with cerebrovascular disease (9.7%), 5 patients with diabetes (3.5%), and 3 patients with renal insufficiency (2.1%).
About surgery(Table 2), the mechanical valve was used in 129 cases, the biological valve in 11 cases, and ring plasty in 4 cases. 71 patients received tricuspid valve surgery (49.3%), 6 patients received CABG (4.2%), and 4 patients received atrial defect repair (2.8%).