Leriche syndrome is a progressive disease distinguished by chronic occlusion of the abdominal aortoiliac arteries.[1]Diabetes mellitus,hypertension,dyslipidemia,and smoking are considered risk factors,and its symptoms...
BACKGROUND The United Kingdom has an aging population with nearly 1 in 5 being over the age of 65,and over 0.5 million over the age of 90.The treatment of acute fractures of the lower limb in the nonagenarian cohort o...
Cardiac amyloidosis is an infiltrative and restrictive cardiomyopathy caused by the extracellular deposition of amyloid fib-rils within the heart as systemic amyloidosis,lead-ing to heart failure,reduced quality of li...
BACKGROUND The association between digoxin and mortality is an unclear issue.In older patients with atrial fibrillation(AF),where use of digoxin is frequent,the evidence of its safety is scarce.Our aim is to assess th...
BACKGROUND Nonagenarians(NG),individuals aged≥90 years,constitute an increasing proportion of hospitalizations presenting with atrial fibrillation(AF).However,not much is known about demographics,clinical outcomes,an...
the Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81870470);the Xijing Hospital Subject Promotion Plan(XJZT18MDT 11&XJZT18MJ31).
Rhabdomyolysis(RM)refers to a pathological condition of skeletal muscle cell damage leading to the release of intracellular toxins into the blood circulation,resulting in potentially critical organ dysfunction and bio...
Background Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is very common in the elderly patients above 80 years. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in such patients is being increasingly performed. This study sought to ass...
Background Acute stroke (AS) rates in patients over 90 years of age (very elderly) with atrial fibrillation (AF) in the United States(US) are not known. We assessed trends in hospitalizations for AS among very...
Surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) is associated with very high peri-operative risk in the nonagenarian populationflI Patients with severe aortic stenosis treated conservatively have high rates of mortality wit...
No consensus exists regarding the role of radiotherapy in the management of gynecologic cancer in nonagenarian patients.We retrospectively reviewed the outcomes of 19 consecutive nonagenarian patients with gynecologic...