Mitral valve replacement cardiac surgery must be divided into pre-, intra- and postoperative. The incidence, phenomenology, and duration of symptoms diverge from patient to patient, and are difficult to define. One wonders whether any of the patients in either group in this analysis underwent any mechanical cardiac valve replacement. If so, one has to consider , described by Victor Skumin in 1978 as a “cardioprosthetic psychopathological syndrome” associated with mechanical heart valve implant and manifested by irrational fear, anxiety, depression and sleep disorder. A common postoperative complication with mitral valve surgery in a study involving 99 patients who had surgery for mitral regurgitation
Mitral valve replacement occurred during the period 2014 -2017. After the surgery the person is taken to a post-operative intensive care unit for monitoring. A respirator may be required for the first few hours or days after surgery. After a day, the patient should be able to sit up in bed. After two days, the patient may be taken out of the intensive care unit. Patients are usually discharged after about seven to ten days. If the mitral valve replacement is successful, patients can expect to return to their regular condition or even better. Patients who have biological valve are prescribed blood thinners