Elderly people represent the fastest growing portion of cardiovascular patients. We aimed to analyze the clinical presentation, risk factors, co-morbidities, complications, and mortality in patients 90 years or more who underwent coronary angiography and intervention.We retrospectively studied 108 (0.25% of 43,385) consecutive patients ≥ 90 years undergoing cardiac catheterization and/or intervention in a tertiary specialist hospital between 2003 and 2014.Most patients (68.5%) were introduced on an emergency basis, especially with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) (63.8%). Non-STEMI accounted for two-thirds of the myocardial infarctions. We found higher prevalences of previous coronary artery disease (CAD) (38%), other atherosclerotic diseases (20.4%), cardiac risk factors such as hypertension (84.3%), diabetes (49.1%), hyperlipidemia (50.9%), heart failure (42.6%), atrial fibrillation (AF) (25.0%), severe aortic stenosis (13.0%), severe mitral regurgitation (3.7%), and implantable devices (25.0%), and co-morbidities such as renal impairment (48.1%), COPD (12.0%), and previous stroke (6.5%). Three-vessel disease was present in 34.6% of the patients. The left anterior descending artery (LAD) was the most affected coronary artery (67.6%). Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), mostly with bare metal stents (BMS), was used to manage 54.6% of the patients, and it failed in 4 of the patients. Conservative treatment was used in 39.8% of the patients and 15.7% had no significant CAD.The incidences of vascular complications, such as bleeding (6.5%), bleeding in other organs (6.5%), blood transfusion (6.5%), in-hospital paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (7.4%), in-hospital successful reanimation (2.8%), complete heart block (5.6%), acute renal impairment (23.1%), associated infection (25.9%), cardiogenic shock (14.8%), and death (15.7%) were high.Considering the more extensive risk factors, CAD and co-morbidities, acute presentation and age per se, we believe that the reported higher rates of complications and mortality are still acceptable.

العنوان

International Heart Journal

الناشر

International Heart Journal Association

بلد الناشر

اليابان

Indexing

Thomson Reuters

معامل التأثير

1,9

نوع المنشور

Both (Printed and Online)

المجلد

58

السنة

2017

الصفحات

180-184