title: [Cardiac operation for aged patients (aged 75 years and over): results of surgical intervention].
abstract: We evaluate the results of cardiac operation for 41 elderly patients (aged 75 years and over, mean, 77.5 years old). The overall hospital mortality was 12.2% (5/41) with mortality of 8.3% (2/24) in cases of elective operation and mortality of 17.6% (3/17) in cases of emergency operation. Causes of hospital death in emergency cases were congestive heart failure and left ventricular rupture (two cases) due to acute myocardial infarction. Patients who died in elective operation had been performed reoperation for bleeding and unstable sternum. These complications which need a reoperation seemed to be a potential risk for elderly patients. Because of poorer results of the emergency case, it is advocate to operate on these aged patients with an elective basis, if there is no absolute contraindications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe Rousai Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wakita
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Toyoda
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ozaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shida
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000401:mortality; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome