[Increasing age in surgical interventions].
The percentage of octogenerians and older patients receiving surgical therapy has increased from 1.1% to 4.6% in the last 10 years in the department of gynecology and obstetrics of the AKH Celle. The indications for surgery can be subdivided into two categories in these very old patients: total or subtotal prolapse often accompanied by a large degree of individual suffering and carcinoma or at least suspected carcinoma. The postoperative complication rate amounted to 6.8% which is only insignificantly more than the general complication rate. An improvement of quality of life is the primary factor for the surgical indication.
Frauenklinik, Allgemeines Krankenhaus, Celle, Bundersrepublik Deutschland.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D008408:Mastectomy; D011788:Quality of Life; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D014596:Uterine Prolapse / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*
Zunehmendes Lebensalter bei operativen Eingriffen.