Elderly Patients
Quality of Life in elderly patients with cancer
... of elderly people who need treatment for cancer. Elderly patients present peculiar characteristics that make the choice of the correct treatment more difficult and these patients are often ...
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Managing myelodysplastic symptoms in elderly patients
... Most patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are elderly (median age range 65 to 70 years); as a consequence, the incidence and prevalence of these diseases are rising as the population ...identify ...
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Effectiveness of postoperative elemental diet (Elental®) in elderly patients after gastrectomy
... in elderly patients is of particular concern, as it may reduce their quality of life (QOL), increase susceptibility to complications ...in elderly patients have not yet been ...
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A Study on Incidence and Etiology of Hyponatremia in Hospitalised Elderly Patients Admitted in RIMS
... All the date entered to SPSS 22 version. Hyponatremia incidence in the hospitalized elderly patients was calculated. The relationships between hyponatremia severity and age groups, sex, duration of hospital ...
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Endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer in elderly patients: a meta analysis
... Thus, elderly patients combined with risks such as smoking, intractable lesions, are recommend to experienced endoscopists, which may avoid procedure-related ...in elderly patients who are at ...
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arthroscopy for ankle fractures in elderly patients
... in elderly patients, ankle arthroscopy can improve the diagnosis and treatment of the lesions of synovium, cartilage and ligaments, and can effectively avoid violations of soft tis- sue and neurovascular ...
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Greater carotid intima-media thickness in elderly patients compare to the non-elderly regular hemodialysis patients
... Old age has become an independent non- traditional risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), mainly atherosclerosis. The risk of CVD may increase if other risk factors, including chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its ...
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Pattern of anemia in elderly patients
... the patients were clearly explained about the nature and purpose of the ...measured. Patients were also analysed based upon underlying co morbid conditions, dietary habits, medication usage and presence of ...
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POLYPHARMACY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS AND THEIR PROBLEMS
... general, elderly people suffer from some chronic diseases, consequently using a drug that is more complex than other groups of age ...the elderly may affect the metabolism of drugs and drug side ...the ...
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Drug Prescribing to the Elderly Patients
... Age-related physiologic and anatomic changes in various body systems are accompanied by significant pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic alterations that make it mandatory for treating physicians to adjust types and ...
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Optimal management of hypertension in elderly patients
... benefit elderly patients with ...in elderly patients compared to younger ...hypertensive patients regardless of age and ,130/80 in patients with concomitant diabetes or kidney ...
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Neutrophil Function in Elderly Patients Hospitalized with Community- Acquired Pneumonia
... Elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are at increased risk for poor clinical outcomes when compared to non-elderly ...the elderly, immunose- nescence affects innate and ...
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QOL-associated factors in elderly patients who underwent cardiovascular surgery
... on elderly patients. Moreover, elderly people’s con- ditions become complicated by the impairment of motor organs with aging, which makes it difficult to maintain activity during the postoperative ...
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Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke in Elderly Patients
... the elderly remain inadequate to fully promote the design of safe and effective strategies to prevent AF and reduce the associated risk of ...AF patients, yet the specific mechanisms that initiate and ...
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Prognostic factors for gastrectomy in elderly patients with gastric cancer
... in patients aged 74 years or ...in elderly patients than in younger patients. Elderly patients might experience more severe complications owing to the characteristics of surgery, ...
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Concurrent radiotherapy with gefitinib in elderly patients with
... the patients for detection of EGFR ...cancer patients to EGFR-TKI ...of patients limiting the statistical power to draw a definite conclusion, it is intriguing that an EGFR mutation was associated ...
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Effectiveness of adjuvant chemotherapy for elderly patients with lymph node positive colorectal cancer
... all patients with stage III colon cancer re- ceive postoperative AC, with such treatment withheld from 48 to 77 % of colon cancer cases [8 – ...general, elderly patients (EP) display higher rates of ...
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Nutritional assessment of elderly patients with acute medical illness presenting to a tertiary care hospital in south India: A case control study
... dwelling elderly in our study was 2%, comparable to some western studies, (15, 16, 17, 18) but much lower than previous Indian studies (23) where a study conducted in western India using the MNA found the overall ...
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Prevalence and Evaluation of Hyponatremia in Elderly Patients
... there is a threshold for hypoxia to stimulate arginine vasopressin release. Several studies show that stimulation of arginine vasopressin secretion due to moderate hypoxia (>35 mm of Hg) is not consistent and if ...
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Cognitive impairment and stroke in elderly patients
... in elderly people, and in the context of a det- rimental genetic milieu, is likely the result of a synergistic interplay between neurodegenerative changes that progres- sively occur in many cerebral ...
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