Sumera Nasim
Assistant Professor, Karachi Institute of Heart Disease, Pakistan
Publications
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Research Article
Percutaneous Coronary Interventions in Elderly Patients: Experience from a Tertiary Care Center from Developing Country
Author(s): Sumera Nasim*, Naresh Kumar, Aysha Zahidie, Ishaq Mohammed and Khalil Rehman
Objective of the study: To assess the outcome of Percutaneous coronary intervention in elderly in terms of success and complications. Methods: Retrospective data review of 887 consecutive cases of percutaneous interventions done at Karachi institute of heart diseases from 2015-2020. We divided the patients in three age groups younger (<65 years, n=592); older (65 to 75 years, n=201); and elderly (>=75 years, n=94). Immediate and six months outcomes of in hospital vascular complications, death, myocardial infarction, repeat target lesion revascularization and stroke were compared between these groups. Result: The vascular complications was in three groups (relative risk 3.2% vs 2.9% vs 4.3% with p=0.56) respectively. The relative risk of periprocedural Myocardial infarction in elderly/older patients was not hi.. Read More»