Cardiac surgery in Assiut University Hospital; ten years experience

Patients with cardiac lesions admitted for cardiac operations [closed or open] were retrospectively included in this study. The patients were diagnosed and fully investigated for elective surgery. There was a progressive increase in the number of patients with open surgery from 1990 [22 patients] to 1999 [122 patients], but the reverse was with closed valvular surgery from 1990 [24 patients] to 1999 [none]; the difference was significant. There was also an increase in the number and types of patients with congenital cardiac lesions subjected to surgery. There was also an improvement in the morbidity and mortality [early and late]; the difference was highly significant