title: Findings at left heart cardiac catheterization of nonagenarians.
abstract: It is estimated that the average 80-year-old person will live an additional eight years and 40% will have symptomatic cardiovascular disease. Few studies exist in patients 90 years or older. Several years ago, a prominent pathologist made the point that at autopsy, nonagenarians rarely had significant coronary disease. That does not seem to be the case in 2009.
authors.forename: C Richard
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Conti
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies