Rheumatic Valve Surgery in Sudan: Results in 7,449 Patients at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery

Gina Portella; Liliane Chatenoud; Sofia Gatti; Alessandro C Salvati; Lino Asta; Salvatore Lentini; Juha Puntila; Franco Masini; Sofia Redaelli; Alessandro Mocini; Suha Abdelwahab Abdallah; Sohayda Hussein Abdalla Abdalla; Nicoletta Erba; Elena Giovanella; Dimiana Raafat Shafig Saber; Daniela Rocchi; Manahel Badr Saad; Lorenzo Valgoi; Paolo Malerba; Luca Rolla; Antonio Pesenti; Roberto Latini; Pietro Parrino; Rossella Miccio; Martin Langer; Salam Centre Working Group

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2024.09.1232

Rheumatic Valve Surgery in Sudan: Results in 7,449 Patients at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 Dec 3:S0735-1097(24)10032-0. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.09.1232. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Gina Portella¹, Liliane Chatenoud², Sofia Gatti³, Alessandro C Salvati⁴, Lino Asta⁴, Salvatore Lentini⁴, Juha Puntila⁵, Franco Masini⁶, Sofia Redaelli⁴, Alessandro Mocini⁶, Suha Abdelwahab Abdallah⁷, Sohayda Hussein Abdalla Abdalla⁴, Nicoletta Erba⁷, Elena Giovanella⁶, Dimiana Raafat Shafig Saber⁴, Daniela Rocchi⁶, Manahel Badr Saad⁴, Lorenzo Valgoi³, Paolo Malerba⁸, Luca Rolla⁶, Antonio Pesenti⁹, Roberto Latini¹⁰, Pietro Parrino³, Rossella Miccio³, Martin Langer³; Salam Centre Working Group

Affiliations

¹ Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Khartoum, Sudan; Emergency ONG Onlus, Milano, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medical Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Milano, Italy.
³ Emergency ONG Onlus, Milano, Italy.
⁴ Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Khartoum, Sudan.
⁵ Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Khartoum, Sudan; HUS Children and Adolescents, University Hospital Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁶ Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Khartoum, Sudan; Emergency ONG Onlus, Milano, Italy.
⁷ Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Khartoum, Sudan; FCSA-Federazione Centri per la Diagnosi Della Trombosi e la Sorveglianza Delle Terapie Antitrombotiche (FCSA), Milano, Italy.
⁸ Emergency ONG Onlus, Milano, Italy; Crimedim-Università Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.
⁹ Emergency ONG Onlus, Milano, Italy; Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Acute Brain and Cardiovascular Injury, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Milano, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 39665704
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.09.1232

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Keywords: EMERGENCY Ong Onlus; Sudan; outcome from valve surgery; rheumatic heart disease; sub-Saharan Africa; valve surgery in rheumatic heart disease.