title: [Surgical treatment of cardiopathies in the elderly].
abstract: We have reviewed hospital mortality and morbidity with cardiac surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass in patients over 75 years, operated during a 5 years period. It is at the expense of a sometimes difficult selection process in favour of patients with a potentially curable cardiac disease as their only problem, and despite substantially increased mortality and morbidity, that the operated elderly can have excellent probability to normalise both life expectancy and quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Cardiaque, Hôpital Brugmann, Bruxelles.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Cavenaile
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Demanet
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Deuvaert
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left
vernacular_title: Traitement chirurgical des cardiopathies du sujet âgé.