Patients with heart valve diseases often have chronic cardiac insufficiency. Patients undergoing heart valve replacement with CPB are always complicated with gastrointestinal tract ischemia-reperfusion injury, which usually leads to AGI. AGI after cardiovascular surgery, especially in that use CPB, is associated with significant morbidity and an increase in peri-operative mortality. Prolonged CPB time could be predictive of AGI following heart valve replacement. This study is to analyze the correlation between CPB time and AGI, and the outcomes of AGI in patients undergoing heart valve replacement. The investigators hope that the benefits will include fewer patients becoming seriously postoperative AGI and mortality after cardiac surgery.
In this retrospective study, the investigators will analyze the correlation between cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) time and acute gastrointestinal injury (AGI), and the outcomes of AGI in patients undergoing heart valve replacement.