Hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the octogenarian: is it justified?

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The journal, published since , is the official publication of the Spanish Society of Cardiology and founder of the REC Publications journal family. Articles are published in both English an Spanish in its electronic edition. The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two receding years. CiteScore measures average citations received per document published. Read more. SRJ is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same.

SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and qualitative measure of the journal’s impact. SNIP measures contextual citation impact by wighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The steady increase in life expectancy and improvements in the efficacy and usefulness of non-invasive diagnostic techniques has led to cardiology and heart surgery services witnessing a progressive increase in the number of octogenarian patients with surgically treatable heart disease.

Coronary heart disease and valvular disease, alone or combination, are the most frequent reason for heart surgery in this population group as reported in several published series. Severe calcific aortic stenosis SAS is the most frequent valvular heart disease found in octogenarians and its prevalence steadily increases with age, from 2. Details of the patients who did not finally undergo surgery were recorded and the reason for not proceeding with surgery analyzed.

The remaining group, which underwent AVR with or without coronary revascularization, formed the study population.