Cardiac surgery in octogenarians - A better prognosis in coronary artery disease

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 713-716

  Gerrah, Rabin ^a,b   Izhar, Uzi ^a,b   Elami, Amir ^a,b   Milgalter, Eli ^a,b   Rudis, Ehud ^a,b   Merin, Gideon ^a,b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Coronary; Octogenarian; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DISEASES; HOSPITALS; PATIENT MONITORING;

CARDIAC SURGERY;

SURGERY;

INOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; Q WAVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0242636846     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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