title: [Heart surgery in the aged patient].
abstract: 107 patients at the age of 80 years or more were operated for coronary or valvular heart disease between 1978 and 1984. The indication for surgery was instable angina in coronary patients and intractable heart failure in such with valvular lesions. 9 coronary and 5 valvular patients died postoperatively, 7 were early postoperative deaths, mainly due to myocardial failure. The majority of cases could be improved for 1 to 2 stages according to NYHA-classification. In this group pulmonary complications were predominant. According to this observation heart operations can also be indicated in the older age patient group without very much more risk than in younger ones.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002341:Carotid Artery Thrombosis / Q000601:surgery; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D008258:Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Herzoperationen im fortgeschrittenen Lebensalter.