Table 3.
Comparison of postoperative complications between the two groups.
| Item | Thoracoscopy-assisted group | Conventional group |
P-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death | 0 | 0 | |
| Cerebral infarction | 0 | 0 | |
| Cerebral hemorrhage | 0 | 0 | |
| Recovery delay | 0 | 0 | |
| Heart failure | 0 | 0 | |
| Malignant arrhythmia | 0 | 0 | |
| Liver insufficiency | 1 | 1 | |
| Acute renal insufficiency | 2 | 3 | 0.633 |
| Pulmonary insufficiency | 1 | 1 | |
| Gastrointestinal bleeding | 1 | 1 | |
| Pulmonary infection | 4 | 13 | 0.028 |
| Reoperation for bleeding | 0 | 3 | |
| Poor wound healing | 1 | 7 | 0.045 |
| Pneumothorax | 4 | 0 | 0.019 |
| Subcutaneous emphysema | 3 | 0 | 0.045 |
| Perivalvular leakage | 0 | 0 | |
| Mechanical valve flap | 0 | 0 |