supported by the key specialty of traditional Chinese medicine promotion project
Background:To create and validate nomograms for the personalized prediction of survival in octogenarians with newly diagnosed nonsmall-cell lung cancer(NSCLC)with sole brain metastases(BMs).Methods:Random forests(RF)w...
Background:To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of cabazitaxel in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients aged>80 years,we performed a retrospective study on a sample of patients from 11 Italian cancer cente...
BACKGROUND The shortage of liver grafts and subsequent waitlist mortality led us to expand the donor pool using liver grafts from older donors.AIM To determine the incidence,outcomes,and risk factors for biliary compl...
Takotsubo syndrome(TTS)is a cardiovas-cular condition characterized by a transi-ent cardiac dysfunction,generally invol-ving the apical segments of left ventriculum,in ab-sence of significant coronary artery disease.[...
BACKGROUND Incidence of gallstones in those aged≥80 years is as high as 38%-53%.The decision-making process to select those oldest old patients who could benefit from cholecystectomy is challenging.AIM To assess the ...
Stent fracture represents a rare cause of stent failure especially in the era of new genera-tion coronary drug-eluting stents(DES).It is described as the interruption of stent continuity resulting in increased risk of...
Heavily calcified coronary lesions continue to represent a challenge for percutaneous coronary intervention(PCI),as they are difficult to dilate,and it is difficult to deliver and implant drug-eluting stents(DES)prope...
Background:Coronary artery disease(CAD)in octogenarians(age of>80 years)has a high risk of mortality and high expenses.Research shows that the prevalence of CAD is higher among octogenarians than that among younger pe...
Objective To compare the long-term survival following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in an octogenarian population with that in a younger population.Methods This retrospective study included 274 patien...