BACKGROUND: Recent studies have demonstrated that aging is associated with reduced
tolerance to ischemia and that the aged (not senescent) female heart has greater …

BACKGROUND: We have recently shown that the cardioprotection afforded by cardioplegia
is affected by age and gender and is less effective in the aged female rabbit heart compared …

Survival after acute myocardial infarction is decreased in elderly patients as compared with
the overall adult population. Although several cardiac and noncardiac causes could …

Objective Senescent patients exhibit an elevated perioperative risk for cardiac dysfunction,
hemodynamic depression and subsequent cardiac death compared to young patients …

Age-related changes in the mouse heart after ischemia-reperfusion have not been well
characterized. To test the hypothesis that advanced age was associated with increased …

BACKGROUND: Increasing age has been recognized as a cause for adverse prognosis in
the setting of myocardial infarction, coronary angioplasty, and cardiac surgery. This is …

With an increase in the elderly population and an increase in the prevalence of age-related
cardiovascular disease, anesthesiologists are increasingly being faced with elderly patients …

Background Cardiovascular disease increases with age in both sexes. Treatment can
require cardiac surgery, where the hearts are pre-treated with protective cardioplegic …

Objective: Aging is associated with a reduced tolerance to myocardial ischemia reperfusion
injury when compared to the young adult. However, there is very little information in the …

Background: Aged hearts are particularly vulnerable to reperfusion injury. We recently
showed that single-dose del Nido cardioplegia was superior to 'standard'multi-dose 4: 1 …