[Characteristics of myocardial revascularization in aged patients with ischemic heart disease].
One of the main difficulties in cardiology is how to correctly choose the tactickof surgical or interventional treatment in elderly patients with IHD. It is widely known that cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of mortality and invalidization all over the world. Atherosclerosis, by WHO data, takes the leading place in morbidity of industrial countries population. In USA and Europe it has become possible to reduce mortality from cardiovascular diseases by 30% due to active application in clinical practice of hi-tech methods of IHD treatment in elderly patients-coronary angioplasty and CABG.
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St.-Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology of North-Western Branch, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 3, Dynamo Prospect, St. Petersburg, 197110.
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D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*