Infections in the elderly
A study of the status of the elderly; bacterial infections, their causes, prevention, and control methods
... systemic infections due to various ...Moreover, elderly individuals are more susceptible to infections due to the presence of underlying ...the elderly is more difficult than that in young ...
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Respiratory tract virus infections in the elderly with pneumonia
... virus infections, even though there is some annual variation in circulating ...the elderly, virus-induced respiratory symptoms may be difficult to distinguish from other ...
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Ten-year trends in intensive care admissions for respiratory infections in the elderly
... respiratory infections, together with an increasing demand for ICU services, led to a striking increase in the overall utilisation of ICU resources: 2038 ICU stays were recorded with ARI as the main diagnosis in ...
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Immune risk phenotype is associated with nosocomial lung infections in elderly in-patients
... in elderly individuals ...in elderly individuals and leads to competition for CD8 T-cell survival niches, thereby hampering the immune responses to infections, most notably those of viral origin ...
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CLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND LABORATORY FINDINGS of COMMON INFECTIONS IN GERIATRIC POPULATION IN TEHRAN (CASE STUDY)
... .Common infections in the elderly include soft tissue infections, urinary tract infections, respiratory and digestive ...the elderly 2 ...febrile elderly had pulmonary ...
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Difficult-to-detect carbapenem-resistant IMP13-producing P. aeruginosa: experience feedback concerning a cluster of urinary tract infections at a surgical clinic in France
... Conclusions: 1/ Our findings indicate the difficulties in the detection of the metallo- β -lactamase in this clone, that resulted in the alert being delayed. 2/ Unlike most investigations of UTI outbreaks described in ...
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Role of neuroinflammation in neurodegeneration: new insights
... tract infections is higher in AD patients than healthy, age-matched controls ...numerous infections over a 4-year period doubled the risk of AD development ...other infections signifi- cantly reduced ...
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Evaluation of prolonged febrile illness in elderly
... In the present study tuberculosis (46.66%) was the commonest of the infections with ETB in 26.66%, while PTB was found in 20% of cases among infections. Next common etiologies were abdominal abscesses ...
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Hyponatremia in the elderly: challenges and solutions
... context, elderly individuals frequently take drugs (eg, thiazide diuretics, selective sero- tonin reuptake inhibitors [SSRIs], serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors [SNRIs], nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory ...
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<p>High-Dose Tigecycline in Elderly Patients with Pneumonia Due to Multidrug-Resistant <em>Acinetobacter baumannii</em> in Intensive Care Unit</p>
... for infections due to MDR in critical ...in elderly patients treated with high-dose vs standard-dose tigecycline for severe infections caused by MDR Gram-negative ...
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... the elderly patients in the last years ...Pulmonary infections related to NTM are the most frequent disease type of these bacteria, although involving other parts of the body has also been ...reported ...
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Neuromuscular blockade in the elderly patient
... Abstract: Neuromuscular blockade is a desirable or even essential component of general anesthesia for major surgical operations. As the population continues to age, and more opera- tions are conducted in the ...
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Overactive bladder in the vulnerable elderly
... frail elderly, symptoms and demonstrable physiologic abnormalities may occur independently of each ...an elderly man with OAB symptoms and mild renal failure may have a chronically obstructed bladder ...
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Lipid-modifying therapy in the elderly
... (the elderly) can now expect to live for nearly a further 19–22 ...the elderly. Effective lipid management in the elderly should reduce the risk of developing CVD with improvement of quality of life ...
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Hypothyroidism in the elderly: diagnosis and management
... The Framingham study evaluated an unselected popu- lation of elderly subjects (.60 years) and found a 4.4% prevalence of thyroid deficiency, as evidenced by a clearly elevated serum thyrotropin level greater than ...
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Management of asthma in the elderly patient
... the elderly. The role of specific immunotherapy in elderly asthmatics is limited, but specific allergen immunotherapy may be an appropriate adjunctive therapy when a clear rela- tionship exists between ...
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The Difoprev® system in treatment of the skin of the elderly: preliminary data obtained in patients with dryness and hyperkeratosis
... in elderly patients which are similar, it was decided that a test be conducted regarding the efficacy of this system also under these latter conditions (which may be defined or considered ...“paraphysiological”). ...
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The Comparative Study of the Support Needs of the Urban and Rural Elderly in the City of Gonabad in 2014
... rural elderly show thatthe access to recreational areas such as parks for the urban elderly was 80/2% and for the rural elderly was ...urban elderly and 95/4% of the rural elderly have ...
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Intraocular infections in the neonatal intensive care unit
... Background: The purpose of this study was to report on the incidence and treatment outcomes of endogenous endophthalmitis among newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of [r] ...
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Anidulafungin in the treatment of invasive fungal infections
... Fungal infections are a growing global ...to infections by Candida species, Cryptococcus neoformans, Aspergillus species, and other ...fungal infections has increased as the population of ...
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