[Acute flare-up of senile cardiopulmonary disease and multi-system organ failure].
In this paper we report 163 cases of senile cardiopulmonary disease. Among them, 60 sustained multi-system organ failure(36.9%). Of those 60, 19 patients died(death rate 31.7%). We believe that most of the acute attacks of senile cardiopulmonary disease were induced by pneumonia. Therefore it is very important to control infection while treating respiratory-circulation failure, pulmonary encephalopathia, shock, acid-base imbalance, and other complications.
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Department of Gerontology, Xiangya Hospital, Hunan Medical University, Changsha 410008.
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D011660:Pulmonary Heart Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy