Should cardiac surgery be performed in octogenarians?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 36-37

  Iskandrian, Abdulmassih S ^a   Segal, Bernard L ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; EDITORIAL; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0025764503     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(10)80213-X     Document Type: Editorial

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3. Age-related changes in left ventricular diastolic performance
4. Exercise cardiac output is maintained with advancing age in healthy subjects: cardiac dilation and increased stroke volume compensate for a diminished heart rate
5. Open heart surgery in octogenarians
6. Clinical, hemodynamic, and operative descriptors affecting outcome of aortic valve replacement in elderly versus young patients
7. Favorable results of coronary artery bypass grafting in patients older than 75 years
8. Octogenarians with aortic stenosis: outcome after aortic valve replacement
9. Cardiac operations in patients over 80 years of age
10. Cardiac surgery in the octogenarian: perioperative outcome and clinical follow-up