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. 2017 Sep 21:28:59.
doi: 10.11604/pamj.2017.28.59.13188. eCollection 2017.

Early experience with open heart surgery in a pioneer private hospital in West Africa: the Biket medical centre experience

Uvie Ufuoma Onakpoya  1 , Adebisi David Adenle  2 , Anthony Taiwo Adenekan  3
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Early experience with open heart surgery in a pioneer private hospital in West Africa: the Biket medical centre experience

Uvie Ufuoma Onakpoya et al. Pan Afr Med J. .

Abstract

Introduction: More than forty years after the first open heart surgery in Nigeria, all open heart surgeries were carried out in government-owned hospitals before the introduction of such surgeries in 2013 at Biket Medical Centre, a privately owned hospital in Osogbo, South-western Nigeria. The aim of this paper is to review our initial experience with open heart surgery in this private hospital.

Methods: All patients who underwent open heart surgery between August 2013 and January 2014 were included in this prospective study. The medical records of the patients were examined and data on age, sex, diagnosis, type of surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass details, complications and length of hospital stay were extracted and the data was analysed using SPSS version 16.

Results: Eighteen patients comprising of 12 males and 6 females with ages ranging between 8 months and 52 years (mean= of 15.7 +/- 15 years) were studied. Pericardial patch closure of isolated ventricular septal defect was done in 7 patients (38.9%) while total correction of isolated tetralogy of Fallot was carried out in 5 patients (27.8%). Two patients had mitral valve repair for rheumatic mitral regurgitation. Sixty day mortality was 0%.

Conclusion: Safe conduct of open heart surgery in the private hospital setting is feasible in Nigeria. It may be our only guarantee of hitch free and sustainable cardiac surgery.

Keywords: Nigeria; Open heart surgery; pioneer cardiac surgery; private hospital.

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