Comparative Analysis of Morbidity and Mortality Outcomes in Elderly and Nonelderly Patients Undergoing Elective TEVAR: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Angelos FrisirasEmmanuel GiannasStergios BobotisIlektra KanellaArian Arjomandi RadAlessandro VivianoKyriakos SpiliopoulosDimitrios E MagouliotisThanos AthanasiouPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2023)
The present meta-analysis indicates that, due to a safe perioperative morbidity profile, TEVAR should not be contraindicated in patients based purely on old age. Further research using large patient registries to validate our findings in elderly patients with specific aortic pathologies and both elective and emergency procedures is necessary.
Keyphrases
- patients undergoing
- systematic review
- end stage renal disease
- aortic dissection
- middle aged
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- emergency department
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- community dwelling
- type diabetes
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- metabolic syndrome
- meta analyses
- insulin resistance
- coronary artery
- pulmonary hypertension