Fig. 2From: Survival and quality of life after surgical aortic valve replacement in octogenariansLong-term survival after aortic valve replacement. Legend: Kaplan-Meier estimated survival in octogenarians (red line and 95 % confidence interval [CI]) compared to patients aged <80 years (green line and 95 % CI); as a reference the dotted black lines depict the predicted survival for Dutch inhabitants with a similar distribution of age and sex as the two study groupsBack to article page