title: Ask the doctors. I am in my eighties and have been increasingly short of breath. My cardiologist told me that I was too old to have open-heart surgery for a leaking valve and some blocked arteries to improve the breathing problem. Do you agree?
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D006304:Health Status; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans