[A trial of the use of EMIKS and LIKS disk prostheses over 10 years].

A total of 2575 EMIKS and LIKS prostheses were implanted to 2309 patients from January 1, 1983 to January 1, 1993. The results were assessed in 1349 patients with primary isolated prostheses of the mitral (PMV), aortic (PAV), and mitral and aortic (PMV + PAV) valves. Mitral valves were replaced in 592 patients, with hospital mortality 3.

[Experience in the use of Soviet-made disk prostheses EMIKS and LIKS].

Experience in the application of and disc prostheses in 614 patients in generalized. Mitral prosthetics was conducted in 256, aortic in 229, and mitral++-aortic in 129 patients. Hospital lethality was, respectively, 3.

[Reoperations in patients with EMIKS and LIKS prostheses].

The frequency, terms, techniques, and the results of reoperations on patients with EMIKS and LIKS prostheses are analysed. In the period between June, 1983 and December, 1989, 994 EMIKS prostheses and 210 LIKS prostheses were implanted in 1,015 patients. In this period 22 reoperations were performed which accounted for 0.

[Comparative evaluation of Soviet-made mechanical prostheses in the mitral position].

The authors appraised comparatively the 25 ball prosthesis (group 1), the rotational-disk prosthesis (group 2) and the prostheses (group 3) in 180 patients who underwent operation in the period between 1983 and 1988. The hospital lethality was 7.5% in group 1, 2.