2009
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.01.057
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Aortic Valve Replacement in Octogenarians: Utility of Risk Stratification With EuroSCORE

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“…Operative risk of all patients was calculated based on Logistic European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) [7] and the Society of Thoracic Surgeon (STS) score [8], and/or clinical judgement. Written informed consent of each patient was obtained and the Ethics Committee of our hospital approved the study.…”
Section: Patientsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Operative risk of all patients was calculated based on Logistic European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) [7] and the Society of Thoracic Surgeon (STS) score [8], and/or clinical judgement. Written informed consent of each patient was obtained and the Ethics Committee of our hospital approved the study.…”
Section: Patientsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 2003, the Euro Heart Survey on Valvular Heart Disease reported that approximately one third of patients with severe, symptomatic AS are denied potentially life-saving surgery because of concerns over age, comorbidities and likely longevity (Iung et al, 2003(Iung et al, , 2005. This is in spite of some recent series demonstrating promising safe and efficacious outcomes for AVR in octogenarians (Melby et al, 2007;Florath et al, 2010;Leontyev et al, 2009). T A V I i s a n o v e l a p p r o a c h t o A S i n h i g h -r isk patients and provides an alternative management option that negates invasive surgery.…”
Section: Patient Selectionmentioning
confidence: 47%
“…Previous studies, in the mid-1990s and earlier, analyzing results of isolated AVR or AVR + CABG reported operative mortality between 9% and 28% in patients aged over 80 years [7][8][9]. However, studies in the last decade have demonstrated improvement in operative mortality between 5% and 10% [10][11][12][13][14][15] (Table 5).…”
Section: Operative Mortalitymentioning
confidence: 92%