title: [Causes of fatal outcomes after operations on the lungs in the elderly].
abstract: For the period from 1969 till 1978 579 elderly patients were operated for different lung diseases. The postoperative mortality was 7,4%. The postoperative mortality in elderly patients was dependent on the operation volume: after pneumonectomies it was 16,6%, bilobectomies--9,3%, lobectomies--5,8%, segmentary, wedge-shaped resections--2,6%. The mortality rate increased proportional to each five years of age of the operated patients.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000601:surgery*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000401:mortality; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012306:Risk
vernacular_title: Prichiny latal'nykh iskhodov posle operatsiĭ na legkikh u pozhilykh bol'nykh.