Cardiac surgery in older adults: a retrospective cohort study of outcomes and risk score performance in octogenarians versus patients aged 65-79 years.

BMC Geriatr · 2025 · PMC12533456 · PMID 41107805

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EuroSCORE II demonstrated a trend toward better discriminative performance in octogenarians (AUC 0.831; 95% CI: 0.6964–0.9656) compared to patients aged 65–79 years (AUC 0.6432; 95% CI: 0.5825–0.8095), though this did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.06175).

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