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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 50, 89-93, Copyright © 1990 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Reversibility of pulmonary artery hypertension in aortic stenosis after aortic valve replacement

GP Tracy, MS Proctor and CS Hizny
Division of Cardiology, Mercy Hospital, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Fifty-two surgical patients with isolated aortic valve stenosis were studied preoperatively and postoperatively to determine the incidence of pulmonary hypertension and its response to surgical intervention. Pulmonary artery systolic hypertension was classified as absent (group 1, less than 30 mm Hg), mild (group 2, 30 to 39 mm Hg), moderate (group 3, 40 to 59 mm Hg), and severe (group 4, greater than 60 mm Hg). Thirty- seven of our patients (71%) had preoperative pulmonary hypertension. There was a positive correlation between left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and both systolic and diastolic pulmonary artery pressures preoperatively (p less than 0.001). After operation we found a decrease in mean systolic pulmonary pressure in group 4, from 85.8 +/- 23 mm Hg to 41.2 +/- 10.4 mm Hg (a 52% decrease, p less than 0.001), and in group 3, from 48.9 +/- 5.9 mm Hg to 32.1 +/- 7.1 mm Hg (a 34% decrease, p less than 0.001). A significant decrease in the mean diastolic pressure was found only in group 4, in which the pressure decreased from 33.7 +/- 8.7 mm Hg to 26.0 +/- 7.6 mm Hg (p less than 0.05). The operative mortality was 1.9%. Our data indicate that pulmonary artery hypertension in aortic stenosis is common, is related to end-diastolic pressure, and can be expected to improve in the early postoperative period.

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