Cardiac surgery in the elderly: What goals of care?

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At present, the majority of cardiac surgery interventions have been performed in the elderly with successful short-term mortality and morbidity, however significant difficulties must to be underlined about our capacity to predict long-term outcomes such as disability, worsening quality of life and loss of functional capacity.The reason probably resides on inability to capture preoperative frailty phenotype with...

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