Medium-term survival and quality of life of Swedish octogenarians after open-heart surgery.

Objective: Operative mortality after open-heart interventions in the octogenarian population is relatively well known. Less has been reported on the medium term survival and quality of life of this growing subgroup of patients.

Methods: One hundred and eighty-three consecutive patients aged between 80 and 84 years when they underwent open-heart surgery between January 1995 and June 2000 were retrospectively analysed.