Is arterial surgery advisable for patients over 80 years of age?

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 375-379

  Matsubara, J ^a   Sakamoto, S ^a   Shikata, H ^a   Hida, K ^a   Kobayashi, M ^a   Kobata, T ^a   Kurose, K ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged, 80 and over; Aortic aneurysm, abdominal, surgery; Aortic rupture, surgery; Arteriosclerosis obliterans, surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGE; AGED; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034915917     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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