title: [Coronary angiographic characteristics in septuagenarian patients with acute coronary syndrome].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although the prognosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in elderly patients is bleak , elderly population is less well treated both in medical and interventional terms. aims: to analyse angiographic findings in septuagenarian patients admitted with ACS and its impact on the therapeutic strategy.
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrospectively analysed 250 patients 70 years or older hospitalised for ACS who underwent a coronary angiography between january 2006 to September 2010.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This population was more likely to be male with mean age 74 years and 93 % of ACS were inaugural events (60% N STEM, 40% STEMI).Coronary angiograms showed complex, diffuse coronary lesions with a high incidence of multivessel coronary artery disease , bifurcation lesions , and calcified stenosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Angiographic findings after ACS in elderly were characterised by multivessel disease and complex lesions .Surgical or percutaneous coronary revascularizaion was possible in the majority of these patients.
authors.forename: Habib
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ben Ahmed
authors.forename: Khaled
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bouzouita
authors.forename: Imen
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hamdi
authors.forename: Fadoua
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ben Hassan
authors.forename: Aida
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mokaddem
authors.forename: Youssef
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ben Ameur
authors.forename: Mohamed R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Boujnah
mesh_terms: D054058:Acute Coronary Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies