Do you have a strict age cut-off for not referring patients for CABG evaluation?

Simple answer: No. The risks and benefits of any procedure should be assessed and balanced for all patients, regardless of age, and decision-making should be undertaken in the context of the patient's overall health status, comorbidity burden, geriatric syndromes (esp. frailty and cognitive impairme...

Short answer: No.

Current guidelines explicitly endorse a physiologic-age approach over chronologic age used in isolation.

Chronologic age is simply the time elapsed since birth, measured in years.

Physiologic age is a clinical estimate of a patient's true biological status, how well the body is actual...