Aortic Valve Replacement in Octogenarians: Is Biologic Valve the Unique Solution?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1296-1301

  de Vincentiis, Carlo ^a   Kunkl, Alessia B ^a   Trimarchi, Santi ^a   Gagliardotto, Piervincenzo ^a   Frigiola, Alessandro ^a   Menicanti, Lorenzo ^a   Di Donato, Marisa ^b  

^a IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOPROSTHESIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; BIOPROSTHESIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40749108117     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.018     Document Type: Article

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