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Rev Hosp Jua Mex 2007; 74 (3)

Surgical abdomen acute in the geriatric patients

Muñiz CM, Núñez TLA, López FC, BMM, García ÁJ, Pérez GR

Language: Spanish
References: 47
Page: 174-185
PDF size: 74.37 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Background. The surgical managing of the sharp (acute) abdomen is a pathology that presents high morbimortality. The present study analyzes the managing between the young patients and the geriatrics. Results. There were selected 134 patients of which 110 were minor 64 years (A Group) and the 24 remaining ones were older than 65 years (B Group). In the A Group, 32 of the patients (29.1%) presented pathological disorders with only a pathology in 85% of the cases and in the B Group only 18 (75%), being in 70% of the cases of multiple pathology. The days of intrahospital stay for the A Group was of three days in average, and in the B Group was seven. The mortality in the A Group was three (0.9%) and in the Group B two (1.8%). Conclusions. The managing of the sharp (acute) abdomen of the geriatric patient in the Hospital Juarez de Mexico has a major mortality, which is related to the number of previous pathologies, this causes that the geriatric patient presented a generally complicated postoperatory which increases (their) hospital stay.


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