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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 23.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2014 Nov 12;130(25):2295–2301. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.011541

Table 4.

Criteria associated with surgical ineligibility.

Prevalence
Poor Targets / Conduits, n (%) 52 (24)
Advanced Age, n (%) 35 (16)
Renal Insufficiency, n (%) 35 (16)
Severe Lung Disease, n (%) 32 (15)
Severe Systolic Dysfunction, n (%) 31 (14)
Malignancy, n (%) 24 (11)
Severe Peripheral Arterial Disease, n (%) 17 (8)
Extensive Nonviable Myocardium, n (%) 14 (6)
Severe Aortic Calcification, n (%) 13 (6)
Cachexia, n (%) 9 (4)
Hematologic Abnormality, n (%) 9 (4)
End-Stage Liver Disease, n (%) 8 (4)
Morbid Obesity, n (%) 7 (3)
Severe Cerebrovascular Disease, n (%) 7 (3)
Cognitive Dysfunction, n (%) 6 (3)
Gastrointestinal Bleeding, n (%) 6 (3)
Systemic Infection, n (%) 5 (2)
Chest Wall Abnormality, n (%) 2 (1)
Immunosuppressed, n (%) 2 (1)
Pulmonary Hypertension, n (%) 1 (1)

All data presented as number (percentage) with the total number of patients deemed surgically ineligible (218) used as the denominator.