title: [Acute abdomen in elderly patients].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Ageing of Czech population and the increase of numbers of elderly people gives new tasks to whole medicine and surgery too.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Presented paper shows some aspects of occurrence, diagnostics and treatment of acute abdomen diseases--inflammatory and intestinal obstruction--in patients older than 60 years. It compares the occurrence and treatment results at an identical surgical department 30 and 60 years ago and nowadays.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Number of the treated patients older than 60 years increased four times during the followed period. Opposite to that, death rate of operated patients declined from 37.2% to today's 16.4%--undoubtedly thanks to modern good-quality perioperational treatment.
authors.affiliation: I chirurgická klinika 1, LF UK a VFN, Praha.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pesková
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klofanda
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Matek
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D018153:Czech Republic / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged