Cardiac surgery in octogenarians: Does age alone influence outcomes?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1089-1093

  Johnson, W Michael ^a   Smith, J Michael ^a,d   Woods, Scott E ^b   Hendy, Mary Pat ^a,c   Hiratzka, Loren F ^a,d  

^a GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Bethesda Family Medicine Residency Program   (United States)

^c Institute for Research and Education   (United States)

^d Cardiovasc/Thoracic Surgeons Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY SURFACE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GERIATRICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMP; REOPERATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27944472757     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.11.1089     Document Type: Article

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