Cardiac Surgery in Select Nonagenarians: Should We or Shouldn't We?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 854-860

  Ullery, Brant W ^a   Peterson, Janey C ^a   Milla, Federico ^a   Wells, Martin T ^b   Briggs, William ^a   Girardi, Leonard N ^a   Ko, Wilson ^a   Tortolani, Anthony J ^a   Isom, O Wayne ^a   Krieger, Karl H ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39149130335     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.10.074     Document Type: Article

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