Anaesthesia for valvular heart diseases : A clinical communication

• Abinav Sarvesh S P S,*  
• Pankaj Pandurang Naik

Abstract

Valvular heart diseases (VHD) are disorders of cardiac valves and are either accquired or congenital. The incidence of these diseases are 13.3 % in age group more than 75 years. These group of disorders are important to anaesthesiologist as it causes significant hemodynamic changes peri-operatively which is usually secondary to abnormalities of ventricular loading. Initially patients tolerate with compensatory mechanisms but at later stages, hemodynamic overload occurs causing various cardiac events including sudden cardiac death.

Keywords

valvular heart disease,anaesthesiology,stenosis,regurgitation