title: [The aorto-coronary bypass in the elderly patient].
abstract: In the FRG one person every ten is more than 70-years old; the average life expectancy, often underestimated, is about 11 years for the 70-years old and 6 years for 80-years old. The modern approach to coronary disease has broadened the indications for coronary artery bypass grafting in the elderly. The present report, studying 152 patients more than 70-years old, suggests the usefulness of a myocardial revascularization in the elderly; it remains to define the relative contraindications (renal failure, high LVEDP, valve replacement). However, the symptomatic improvement we could achieve (95.45%) seems to be a good result, considering the low CABG-related postoperative lethality (1.9%). The trend of our results regardless of 5 years survival is also encouraging (85.1%).
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Standort Charlottenburg Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Borioni
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pallua
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wasmuth
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Bücherl
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Il by-pass aorto-coronarico nel paziente anziano.