Nonelective cardiac surgery in the elderly: Is it justified?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ghanta, Ravi K ^a   Shekar, Prem S ^a   McGurk, Siobhan ^a   Rosborough, Donna M ^a   Aranki, Sary F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 77953478293     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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