title: [Properties of drug complications in elderly patients].
abstract: Adverse reactions to drugs are characteristically more frequent and more severe in elderly people as a result of factors that are found exclusively in this category of patients, such as multiple diseases, multiple medications, multiple prescribers, self-medication, age-related changes in pharmacokinetics and patient's compliance. Clinically, these reactions are atypical, often mixed, and they may take their symptoms from some other disease decompensated by the adverse reaction. The frequency of this iatropathology in elderly patients is such that it must systematically be suspected in the presence of any pathological episode.
authors.affiliation: Unité de médecine interne et gériatrie, hôpital Charles-Foix, Ivry-sur-Seine.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bérigaud
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Saint-Jean
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls; D000059:Accidents; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced*; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007024:Hypotension, Orthostatic / Q000139:chemically induced*; D008297:Male; D010599:Pharmacokinetics; D012307:Risk Factors; D013575:Syncope / Q000139:chemically induced*; D014839:Vomiting / Q000139:chemically induced
vernacular_title: Particularités des accidents médicamenteux chez les sujets âgés.