[Surgery in advanced age].
Between 1982 and 1990 724 patients aged between 85 and 102 years were hospitalized (average age: 88.7 years). Operations were performed on 482 of them (66.6%). The surgical mortality amounted to 16.8%. The mortality in conjunction with emergency operation was as high as 28.2%, or as low as 11.4% in the context of elective operations. X-ray findings recorded from heart and lung, and ECG provided reliable criteria for assessment of the surgical risk.
DRK-KH Mark Brandenburg, Chirurgische Abteilung, Berlin.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000075202:Contraindications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000401:mortality; D015996:Survival Rate
Chirurgie im hohen Lebensalter.