title: [Causes of lethal outcomes in presenile and senile patients treated in pulmonological hospital].
abstract: Causes of lethal outcomes were analysed for 46 patients (mean age 76.76 years, 39 males, or 84.78%, and 7 females, or 15.22%) why died of respiratory diseases when treated in War Veterans Hospital of St-Petersburg. Necropsies registered the following causes of death: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (32 deaths, 69.57%), cardiovascular diseases (17 deaths, 36.96%), cancer (14 deaths, 30.44%). Lethal outcomes were most frequent at the age of 71 to 80 years (52.17%). COPD was present in 43 of 46 of the deceased (93.48%). The most frequent direct causes of lethal outcomes in elderly patients with COPD were isolated pulmonary-cardiac insufficiency and combination of this insufficiency with pneumonia which is as an aggravating factor and determines the outcome of the basic disease.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Zarembo
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Kokosov
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Kiseleva
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Karlova
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000401:mortality*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000401:mortality*; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine; D012426:Russia