Long-Term Survival and Quality of Life Justify Cardiac Surgery in the Very Elderly Patient Ravi K. Ghanta, MD, Prem S. Shekar, MD, Siobhan McGurk, BS, Donna M. Rosborough, RN, MS, Sary F. Aranki, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 92, Issue 3, Pages 851-857 (September 2011) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.083 Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Kaplan-Meier survival curve. (BWH = Brigham and Women's Hospital [solid line]; US = United States [broken line]; yo = years old.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 92, 851-857DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.083) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier survival curve by procedure type: coronary artery bypass graft surgery only (solid line); CABG plus valve (broken line); and valve only (dotted line). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 92, 851-857DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.083) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Short-Form 12 Quality of Life Survey data. (BWH = Brigham and Women's Hospital; CABG = coronary artery bypass graft surgery; US = United States; yo = years old.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 92, 851-857DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.083) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) score for predicting operative mortality. The C-statistic for EuroSCORE (blue line) and the STS score (red line) was 0.63 and 0.54, respectively. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 92, 851-857DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.083) Copyright © 2011 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions