601 Octogenarians undergoing cardiac surgery: Outcome and comparison with younger age groups

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1104-1110

  Craver, Joseph M ^a   Puskas, John D ^a,b   Weintraub, William W ^a   Shen, Yannan ^a   Guyton, Robert A ^a   Gott, John Parker ^a   Jones, Ellis L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032938213     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00154-X     Document Type: Article

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