Usefulness of the Charlson co-morbidity index to predict outcomes in patients >60 years old with aortic stenosis during 18 years of follow-up

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 695-701

  Kearney, Leighton ^a,b   Ord, Michelle ^a   Buxton, Brian ^a   Matalanis, George ^a   Patel, Sheila ^b   Burrell, Louise ^a,b   Srivastava, Piyush ^a,b  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERAN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VICTORIA;

EID: 84864910698     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.04.054     Document Type: Article

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