Open AccessRisk profile and outcomes of aortic valve replacement in octogenarians
Author(s) -
Sujatha Kesavan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
world journal of cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1949-8462
DOI - 10.4330/wjc.v3.i11.359
Subject(s) - medicine , aortic valve replacement , quartile , demographics , euroscore , logistic regression , cardiology , surgery , cardiac surgery , confidence interval , stenosis , demography , sociology
To investigate the patient characteristics, relationship between the Logistic EuroSCORE (LES) and the observed outcomes in octogenarians who underwent surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR).