Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in Octogenarians: Long-Term Outcome Can Be Better Than Expected

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1119-1124

  Nissinen, Juha ^a,b   Wistbacka, Jan Ola ^a   Loponen, Pertti ^a,b   Korpilahti, Kari ^a   Teittinen, Kari ^a   Virkkilä, Markku ^a   Tarkka, Matti ^b   Biancari, Fausto ^c  

^a VAASA CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DELIRIUM; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949556903     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.063     Document Type: Article

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