changes in presentation and outcomes in cardiac surgery patients aged 70 to 79 years versus patients 80 years or older变化的表现和结果在心脏手术病人70到79年与病人70岁或以上.pdfVIP

World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, 2012, 2, 141-147 WJCD /10.4236/wjcd.2012.23023 Published Online July 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wjcd/) Changes in presentation and outcomes in cardiac surgery patients aged 70 to 79 years versus patients 80 years or * older 1# 2 1 Aarne Jyrala , Nicole M. Gatto , Gregory L. Kay 1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Institute at Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, USA 2Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA Email: #lathoracic@ Received 18 April 2012; revised 14 May 2012; accepted 12 June 2012 ABSTRACT Outcomes Background: To establish which variables between cardiac surgery pts aged 70 - 79 years and 80 years or 1. INTRODUCTION over are individually different for age group status. During the last several years ages of patients undergoing Methods: Group 1, 70 - 79 years, n = 351 and Group cardiac surgery have increased considerably and patients 2, age 80 or over n = 94. Demographics, operative and over 80 years are common in most cardiac surgery units. hospital outcomes were identified and EuroSCORE (ES) scores applied. Logistic regression uni- and mul- Risk factors for elderly undergoing cardiac surgery are tivariate analysis was used to detect pre- and postop- well documented [1-3] and several reports confirm good erative variables which might be independently dif- early and late