title: [Cardiac surgery in the 7th and 8th decade (author's transl)].
abstract: Progress in cardiovascular surgery and the growing amount of older people made it possible and necessary to extend open-heart-surgery to patients between 60 and 75 years of age. From 1970 to 1978 174 cardiac procedures (mostly for valve replacement and aorto-coronary-vein-bypass) were performed in this group of older patients. The total mortality rate was 18.3%. These results which have to be improved in several areas demonstrate clearly that surgery is of real benefit for these older, properly selected patients; the operative risk seems to be acceptable.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000601:surgery; D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life
vernacular_title: Herzchirurgie im 7. und 8. Lebensjahrzehnt. Frühergebnisse.