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This study presents our experience on estimating the individual operative risk of patients after heart valve replacement. Although operative mortality has decreased during the last decade as a consequence of improved operative techniques, the early mortality after heart valve replacement still ranges from about 4 to 12%, depending on the position and the number of the implanted valves (1). There are of course subgroups of patients with significantly lower or higher average risk. It is important to separate these subgroups of patients in order to be able to define the conditions associated with minimum risk and also to be able to define and to be aware of the conditions leading to high operative risk.
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Holper, K., Federkiel, H., Hölzel, D., Balteskonis, S., Sebening, F. (1986). Improved Estimation of Operative Risk After Heart Valve Replacement: Medical Decision-Making Based on Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis. In: Tsiftsis, D.D. (eds) Objective Medical Decision-Making Systems Approach in Disease. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93308-0_13
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