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Cardiac surgery in General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur: review of all open-heart operations. April 1982 to February 1987

Awang Y 1 , Haron A 2 , Sallehuddin A 3

Affiliations 

  • 1 Yahya Awang, MBBS(Monash). FRCS(Glasg). Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Head, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery General Hospital 50586 Kuala Lumpur
  • 2 Abdullah Haron, MBBS(Mal). FRCS(Edin). Surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery General Hospital 50586 Kuala Lumpur
  • 3 Ahmad Sallehuddin, MBBS(NSW). Surgical Registrar, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery General Hospital 50586 Kuala Lumpur
Med J Malaysia, 1987 Jun;42(2):81-5.
PMID: 3503194

Abstract

The Cardiothoracic Department, General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur which was set up in April 1982, deals with a wide range of cardiac disease, general thoracic and also vascular cases. A total of 2,450 operations were performed from April 1982 to February 1987, and 79.3% of these were for cardiac cases (open and closed heart). This paper reports a review of the 1,110 consecutive open heart operations performed by the Department during the stated period.

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