title: [Complications and their prevention in the surgical treatment of lung diseases in the elderly].
abstract: According to the author's data, of 579 elderly patients operated for different diseases of the lungs complications were observed during operation in 24,5% of cases such as cardiac arrhythmia, hemorrhages, acute disturbance of ventilation and cardiac arrest. Postoperative complications (tracheobronchial obturation, pneumonia, cardiac rhythm disturbance, pulmonary-cardiac insufficiency, incompetence of the bronchial stump and thromboembolism) took place in 40,6%. Postoperative lethality was 7,4%. Most frequent complications appeared following pulmonectomy. Great importance is attached by the author to prophylactic measures reducing the postoperative lethality.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000379:methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*
vernacular_title: Oslozhneniia i ikh profilaktika pri khirurgicheskom lechenii zabolevaniĭ legkikh u pozhilykh bol'nykh.