Is Mitral Valve Repair Superior to Replacement in Elderly Patients?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-86

  Ailawadi, Gorav ^a   Swenson, Brian R ^a   Girotti, Micah E ^a   Gazoni, Leo M ^a   Peeler, Benjamin B ^a   Kern, John A ^a   Fedoruk, Lynn M ^a   Kron, Irving L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47049124578     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.03.020     Document Type: Article

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