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. 2008;147(9):478-81.

[Acute abdomen in elderly patients]

[Article in Czech]
M Pesková  1 , J Klofanda, J Matek
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  • PMID: 18988490

[Acute abdomen in elderly patients]

[Article in Czech]
M Pesková et al. Cas Lek Cesk. 2008.

Abstract

Background: Ageing of Czech population and the increase of numbers of elderly people gives new tasks to whole medicine and surgery too.

Method and results: Presented paper shows some aspects of occurrence, diagnostics and treatment of acute abdomen diseases--inflammatory and intestinal obstruction--in patients older than 60 years. It compares the occurrence and treatment results at an identical surgical department 30 and 60 years ago and nowadays.

Conclusions: Number of the treated patients older than 60 years increased four times during the followed period. Opposite to that, death rate of operated patients declined from 37.2% to today's 16.4%--undoubtedly thanks to modern good-quality perioperational treatment.

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