1. Short-term and long-term results of cardiac surgery in elderly and very elderly patients 
Giuseppe Speziale, MD, Giuseppe Nasso, MD, Maria Cristina Barattoni, Giampiero Esposito, MD, Georges Popoff, MD, Vincenzo Argano, MD, Ernesto Greco, MD, Marcio Scorcin, MD, Claudio Zussa, MD, Donald Cristell, MD, Roberto Coppola, MD, Sergio Chierchia, MD, Alfredo Marchese, Pasquale Caldarola, MD, Khalil Fattouch, MD, Luigi Tavazzi, MD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 141, Issue 3, Pages e1 (March 2011)
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2. Figure 1
Kaplan–Meier survival curves of patients divided according to strata of predicted risk (additive EuroSCORE). P value is from log–rank statistic.
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3. Bar diagram showing New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification among the patients who were alive at the end of follow-up.
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4. Degree of physical activity among patients who were alive at the end of follow-up.
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