Open AccessFindings at Left Heart Cardiac Catheterization of Nonagenarians
Author(s) -
Richard Conti C.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.20600
Subject(s) - medicine , autopsy , cardiac catheterization , cardiology , disease
It is estimated that the average 80‐year‐old person will live an additional eight years and 40% will have symptomatic cardiovascular disease. Few studies exist in patients 90 years or older. Several years ago, a prominent pathologist made the point that at autopsy, nonagenarians rarely had significant coronary disease. That does not seem to be the case in 2009. Copyright © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.