Aortic valve replacement in octogenarians:Outcome and predictors of complications

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-215

  Litmathe, Jens ^a   Feindt, Peter ^a   Kurt, Muhamed ^a   Gams, Emmeran ^a   Boeken, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Complications; Octogenarians; Predictors

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENDER; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROSTHESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959334013     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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