Aortic valve surgery in the elderly patient: A retrospective review

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 308-313

  Cerillo, Alfredo Giuseppe ^a   Al Kodami, Al Assal ^a   Solinas, Marco ^a   Farneti, Pier Andrea ^a   Bevilacqua, Stefano ^a   Maffei, Stefano ^a   Mazzone, Annamaria ^a   Glauber, Mattia ^a  

^a G PASQUINUCCI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Cardiac surgery; Octogenarian patients; Symptomatic status

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CARDIAC PATIENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249783117     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2006.147728     Document Type: Review

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