Surgery
From April 2007 to March 2012, 4,093 patients underwent surgical operations at the Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery.
Patients' age ranged from 13 days to 65 years (mean age 25.9 ± 14.7).
PATIENTS' DISTRIBUTION BY TYPE OF DISEASE
| Valvular Heart Diseases | 2,995 (73.17%) |
| Congenital Heart Diseases | 914 (22.33%) |
| Ischemic Heart Diseases | 125 (3.05%) |
| Disease of the Aortic Valve and Ascending Aorta | 26 (0.64%) |
| Disease of Ascending Aorta, Aortic and Mitral Valve | 5 (0.12%) |
| Disease of the Aortic Valve and Ascending Aorta and CABG | 1 (0.02%) |
| Ascending Aorta | 3 (0.07%) |
| Other | 24 (0.6%) |