Outcome of patients aged ≥80 years undergoing combined aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 40 studies

Conventional AVR and CABG in patients aged ≥80 years are associated with significant operative mortality and morbidity as well as prolonged in-hospital treatment. However, conventional surgery is associated with remarkably good late survival. This suggests that any alternative treatment modality must prove itself of being enough durable also in the very elderly.