title: [Liver ressection in elderly patients].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Life expectancy of the population has increased in recent years as a result of human development, leading to an increase in the incidence of primary and secondary neoplasms of the liver. Medicine has been following this process, but there is still fear of aggressive surgical treatment in elderly patients, especially concerning to liver surgery.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the influence of age on the morbidity and mortality of patients undergoing liver resection.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature review of scientific articles available in PubMed, Scielo and Bireme database with "elderly", "hepatectomy," "hepatic resection," "postoperative complications", "morbidity", "mortality". It was selected studies that compared the results of hepatectomy between groups of young and elderly patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Age is not a predisposing factor for the worsening of results in liver resection.
authors.affiliation: Trabalho realizado no Programa de Pós- Graduação de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. laportegustavo@gmail.com
authors.forename: Gustavo Andreazza
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Laporte
authors.forename: Antônio Nocchi
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Kalil
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*