Oldest heart bypass surgery patient
- Who
- Five patients more than 100 years of age
- Where
- United States
- When
- 2003
According to a study on cardiac surgery in nonagenarians and centenarians published in 2003 by the Department of Surgery of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia (USA), five centenarians were operated on for isolated cardiac bypass surgeries. The study was based on records of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database.