How to approach aortic valve disease in the elderly: A 25-year retrospective study

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 244-248

  Aydin, Ebuzer ^a   Yerlikhan, Ozge Altas ^a   Tuzun, Behzat ^a   Ozen, Yucel ^a   Sarikaya, Sabit ^a   Kirali, Mehmet Kaan ^a  

^a Kartal Kosuyolu Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Elderly; Mortality; Surgery

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE COURSE; ELDERLY CARE; EUROSCORE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVOR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84910005900     PISSN: 19951892     EISSN: 16800745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5830/CVJA-2014-051     Document Type: Article

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