{"id":346,"date":"2008-03-10T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/03\/10\/heart-valve-replacement-surgery-how-successful\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:26:13","slug":"heart-valve-replacement-surgery-how-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/03\/10\/heart-valve-replacement-surgery-how-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Valve Replacement Surgery: Success Rates &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a great question via email. In fact, this particular question brought back memories to when I was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/02\/26\/diagnosing-aortic-stenosis\/\">diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis<\/a> and told that I needed heart valve replacement surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The question reads, &#8220;Adam &#8211; Do you have any statistics about the success or failure rates of heart valve replacement surgery?&#8221; Interestingly enough, I have collected some statistics about how successful heart valve replacement surgery is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/heart-surgery.jpg\" alt=\"How Successful Is Valve Replacement\" width=\"247\" height=\"250\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, before you evaluate this information, you have to understand that there are several variables that determine the success or failure of heart valve surgery.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For example, consider all the <em>variables of the patient<\/em> &#8211; age, overall health, heart condition, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Furthermore, you need to consider the <em>variables of the health care facility and surgeon selection<\/em>. As I have written about before, there is a dichotomy between the leading heart care centers and the regional \/ local cardiac care centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That said, my research suggests that the short-term success rate of heart valve replacement surgery is relatively high. Thanks to the advances of medical technology and surgeon skill, some heart care facilities suggest that 94% &#8211; 97% of heart valve replacement operations will be successful. To learn more about heart valve replacement surgery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-valve-replacement.php\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center posts a mortality rate from heart valve surgery of only 2.4%.<\/p>\n<p>In review of the low mortality rate, one should know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-valve-surgery-complications.php\">heart valve surgery complications<\/a> are perceived to be relatively common among patients. As my research suggests, up to 60% of patients perceive that their recovery is impacted by one or more forms of complications following heart valve surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/valve-mortality-surgery-repair-replacement.php\">Dispelling the Fear of Heart Surgery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/mitral-valve-repair-mortality-rate.php\">Mitral Valve Surgery Mortality Rates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that helps answer the question about the success rate of heart valve replacement surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heart-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41211,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/41211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}