{"id":638,"date":"2008-11-12T09:41:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T14:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/11\/12\/elderly-heart-surgery-success-rates-improving\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:01:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:01:59","slug":"elderly-heart-surgery-success-rates-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/11\/12\/elderly-heart-surgery-success-rates-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Elderly Heart Surgery Success Rates Continuing To Improve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading the New York Times when I came across a very positive story about elderly heart surgery patients.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/elderly-patient.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to a new report, &#8220;Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/leaking-heart-valve-symptoms.php\">leaky heart valves<\/a> used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of much younger people, two new studies show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire story, please click this link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/11\/health\/research\/11heart.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Elderly Survival Rates Improve After Heart Surgery&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, if you would like to read additional information about elderly heart surgery patients, please click on the following links:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/03\/25\/at-83-years-young-john-defalco-is-bored-with-his-recovery\/\">At 83, John De Falco Is Bored With Valve Replacement Recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/03\/13\/elderly-heart-valve-surgery-over-eighty-years-age\/\">Is Heart Surgery Advisable For Elderly Patients?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/14\/critical-aortic-stenosis-patients-over-80-alternatives-to-surgery\/\">Critical Aortic Stenosis For Elderly Patients<\/a><\/li>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this information helps you better understand heart surgery for elderly patients<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}