Cardiac surgery in nonagenarians: Not only feasible, but also reasonable?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 340-343

  Assmann, Alexander ^a   Minol, Jan Philipp ^a   Mehdiani, Arash ^a   Akhyari, Payam ^a   Boeken, Udo ^a   Lichtenberg, Artur ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Cardiac surgery; Nonagenarians; Operative mortality; Outcome

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELDERLY CARE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84880718228     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivt125     Document Type: Article

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