title: [Digestive emergencies of elderly patients].
abstract: Evaluation of an elderly patient with acute abdominal conditions presents a challenge to the physician on account of the general poverty of history and clinical signs and the poor reliability of diagnostic procedures. The management of these pathologies are analyzed: cholecystitis, appendicitis, incarcerated hernia, small bowel obstruction, côlonic diverticular disease, intestinal ischemia and gastroduodenal ulcer. An early elective treatment of chronic pathologies like gallstones, hernias and intestinal ischemia trends to avoid complications.
authors.affiliation: Service médico-chirurgical de Gastro-Entérologie, Hôpital Erasme, U.L.B.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Closset
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004239:Diverticulitis, Colonic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000098:blood supply; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008641:Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery