title: Ask the doctor. My 83-year-old father needs to have his mitral valve fixed. It took him a long time to recover from having an aortic aneurysm repaired, so he is procrastinating on the valve operation. Can he put it off? If not, are there alternatives to open-heart surgery?
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome