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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention In octogerians compared with very young Patients | ||
| kufa Journal for Nursing sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 125-130 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ahmed Neama Rgeeb | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Still percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in elderly people challenging for the interventionist as complications and comorbidities are frequent in them. Aim of study: clinical and angiographic comparsion in PCI between the elderly and the young age patients. methods This is aretrospective comparative study enrolled 77 patients divided in to two extremes of age one more than 75 years old(38 patients) ,second younger than 45 years old(39). statistical Analysis: Both groups analyzed statistically according to their risk factors, angiographic results and in hospital outcome. Chi square taken for level of significance results: We find hypercholesterolemia ,hypertension and diabetes was frequent in young age people, smoking was more frequent with less significance .The elderly people had complex lesions and multivessels diseases .Incidence of drug eluting stents was less in elderly. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| ischemia; intervention; elderly | ||
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