Surgical therapeutic decision-making in elderly patients with heart valvular defects combined with lesions of coronary and brachiocephalic arteries
Skopin, I.I.; Samorodskaia, I.V.; Murysova, D.V.; Asatrian, T.V.; Urmanbetov, K.S.; Valieva, R.R.
Angiologiia i Sosudistaia Khirurgiia 19(1): 87-92
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 1027-6661 PMID: 23531665 Document Number: 670835
Due to considerable incidence of combined cardiac and vascular pathology in elderly and aged patients with heart valve defects, of special importance is the problem regarding surgical therapeutic decision-making. The present article is aimed at considering the problems concerning possibility and feasibility of stagewise or simultaneous surgical correction in patients diagnosed as having cardiac valve defect and haemodynamically significant lesions of coronary and/or brachiocephalic arteries based on generalizing the results of international studies.