Emergency coronary and peripheral arteries combined with percutaneous intervention in the elderly: success or therapeutic excess?
| Autor: | Fausto Castriota, Armando Liso, Marianna Miranda, Martino Pepe, Valeria Paradies, Fortunato Iacovelli, Alessandro Furgieri, Alessandro Cafaro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Acute coronary syndrome Time Factors medicine.medical_treatment Population Femoral artery Disease law.invention Coronary artery disease Peripheral Arterial Disease Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Randomized controlled trial law medicine.artery Internal medicine medicine Humans Angina Unstable Intensive care medicine education Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study business.industry Unstable angina Angiography Percutaneous coronary intervention medicine.disease Femoral Artery Cardiology Molecular Medicine Stents Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Vascular Surgical Procedures Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Future Cardiology. 11:521-524 |
| ISSN: | 1744-8298 1479-6678 |
| Popis: | Acute lower extremities peripheral artery disease represents a clinical emergency. Peripheral artery disease incidence ranges from 2.5 to 22% and has progressively increased due to the world population aging phenomenon and associates with coronary artery disease with a rate of 40–60%. The authors present the case of an 89-year-old man coming to their attention with acute lower extremities ischemia and unstable angina. Despite the short-to-midterm favorable outcome, doubts remain about the opportunity of treating ‘very old’ patients. The lack of dedicated randomized trials and of defined guidelines is a problem the scientific community needs to face considering that patients over 85 years represent a raising quote of the whole population of our catheterization laboratories. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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