Population
130 octogenarians who underwent cardiac surgery between 1990 and 1993, 88% elective, 84% NYHA class III or…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Mean 5.4 +/- 2.5 years (range 0-10 years)
Authors
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May inform shared decision-making for octogenarian surgery candidates; hypothesis-generating for strategies to mitigate late cardiac mortality.
In octogenarians undergoing cardiac surgery, 5-year survival is approximately 62%, with the majority of late deaths being cardiac-related.
Sjögren et al. (2002) studied this question.
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