2.1 | Patient’s characteristics
There were 28 men and 80 women (N=108) with mean age of 65 ±14.1 years.
Patient demographics and comorbidities are delineated in Table 1. Most
of the patients were in NYHA functional class
III/IV (61.1%). Thirty-five
patients (32.4%) had undergone previous cardiac surgery. Median
Systolic Pulmonary Artery Pressure (sPAP) was 55 (interquartile range
(IQR): 40-70) mmHg. Patients had high surgical risk as evidenced by the
overall EuroSCORE II of 7.5% (SD: 8.9).
The most common type of presentation was aortic mixed disease (40.7%),
mitral (34.3%) and tricuspid regurgitation (93.5%). The complete list
of valve disease presentation is presented in Table 2.