Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Valve Stenosis in the Nonagenarian Patient Takashi Murashita, MD, Kevin L. Greason, MD, Rakesh M. Suri, MD, Vuyisile T. Nkomo, MD, MPH, David R. Holmes, MD, Charanjit S. Rihal, MD, Verghese Mathew, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 98, Issue 5, Pages 1593-1597 (November 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.06.015 Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier estimate survival curve of aortic valve replacement in patients age 90 years or older in comparison with age- and sex-matched control subjects. Blue line indicates actual survival; red dashed line indicates expected survival. (SAVR = surgical aortic valve replacement; TAVR = transcatheter aortic valve replacement.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 98, 1593-1597DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.06.015) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions