Patients over 80 years: Quality of life after aortic valve replacement [1]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 307-309

  Lam, B Khanh ^a   Hendry, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442499318     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afh014     Document Type: Letter

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