Conventional aortic valve replacement in 2005 elderly patients: a 32-year experience.

Objectives: Considering the good immediate results reported for transcatheter aortic valve implantation in high-risk patients, the role of conventional aortic valve replacement (AVR) is being questioned, especially in elderly patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate our long-term results of conventional AVR in octogenarians.

Methods: A total of 2005 patients aged ≥80 years underwent AVR for aortic stenosis in our institution between 1978 and 2011.

[Surgery for aortic valve stenosis after age 80 years].

Population aging in industrialized countries and advances in surgical care are leading to an increased number of elderly patients referred for surgical management of aortic stenosis (AS). Our report is a retrospective review of 988 consecutive patients aged 80 to 93 years (mean 82.4 +/- 2.

[Cardiac surgery in the elderly].

Cardiac disease in the elderly represents a major burden on public healthcare. Their frequences is linked to ageing process of general population and prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in older ages. Two diseases are of primary importance in elderly: Aortic valve stenosis is the most common.

[Results of heart transplantation: experience of 233 grafts].

Background: Heart failure is one of the leading causes of hospitalization and death. The aim of this study was to evaluate long term outcomes after cardiac transplantation.

Methods: A retrospective review of 222 consecutive cardiac allograft recipients who underwent 233 transplantations between 1986 to 2000 was undertaken.

Surgical treatment of acute traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta a timing reappraisal?

Objective: To report our experience with surgery of thoracic aortic rupture due to blunt trauma.

Methods: Between October 1976 and October 1999, 50 patients suffering from acute rupture of the thoracic aorta due to blunt trauma were operated on. On admission, 22 patients (44%) presented with hypovolemic shock and all but five (90%) sustained major associated injuries.