Introduction:For many years, surgical treatment of cardiac pathologies in subjects over 80 years of age has been viewed with great skepticism. Old age as a significant risk factor for cardiovascular diseases has also been considered an indicator of high surgical risk, being influenced by the progressive increase in comorbidities with increasing age. However, with the increase in quality of life and at the same time average life expectancy, an ever-increasing trend has been observed in patients over 80 years of age who have shown the need for cardiac surgical treatment.