ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: The perioperative assessment and management of elderly patients with hip fracture and significant aortic stenosis (AS) is an increasingly common clinical problem with little data available to guide perioperative management. OBJECTIVES: It was the aim of this study to examine the incidence of perioperative events in an elderly population of patients with severe AS undergoing repair of hip fracture as compared with controls without severe AS. METHODS: Patients over the age of 70 with an echocardiographic diagnosis of severe AS defined as an aortic valve area Subject(s)
Aortic Valve Stenosis/complications
, Hip Fractures/surgery
, Postoperative Complications/prevention & control
, Acute Coronary Syndrome/complications
, Aged
, Aged, 80 and over
, Aortic Valve Stenosis/epidemiology
, Aortic Valve Stenosis/physiopathology
, Case-Control Studies
, Echocardiography
, Female
, Heart Diseases/mortality
, Humans
, Incidence
, Male
, Perioperative Care
, Postoperative Period
, Pulmonary Edema/complications
, Retrospective Studies
, Risk Assessment
, Treatment Outcome