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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1972
To the Editor.— Spinal anesthesia for a 102-year-old patient as described by Milliken and Milliken ( 218 :1435, 1971) is indeed a rarity but is not a record. After a thorough study of the published material on geriatric anesthetics, they concluded that this was the oldest recorded patient so treated.
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To the Editor.— Spinal anesthesia for a 102-year-old patient as described by Milliken and Milliken ( 218 :1435, 1971) is indeed a rarity but is not a record. After a thorough study of the published material on geriatric anesthetics, they concluded that this was the oldest recorded patient so treated.
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Emergence of Centenarians and Super-centenarians
1997Until about 1950 centenarians were quite rare, and their number grew only slowly. Examinations of reported centenarians in the Nordic countries indicate that most reports of centenarians in the last century were not genuine. It is plausible that there were no true centenarians prior to 1800.
B. Jeune, V. Kannisto
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International Journal of Older People Nursing, 2007
Aims and objectives. The objectives were shaped by ways in which to best engage the readers’ curiosity about being 100 years old.Background. In the effort to reverse negative stereotyping associated with older people, the aim was to produce a book of individual stories for public readership that had the power to combat ageism and to present ...
Power, Charmaine +2 more
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Aims and objectives. The objectives were shaped by ways in which to best engage the readers’ curiosity about being 100 years old.Background. In the effort to reverse negative stereotyping associated with older people, the aim was to produce a book of individual stories for public readership that had the power to combat ageism and to present ...
Power, Charmaine +2 more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971
To the Editor.— A recent letter to the Editor from Colokathis et al reported implantation of a permanent cardiac pacemaker in a 92-year-old woman, following which the patient returned to normal activity. We share their opinion that gratifying results are obtainable in patients of advanced age, and that a "generation gap" in this direction need not ...
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To the Editor.— A recent letter to the Editor from Colokathis et al reported implantation of a permanent cardiac pacemaker in a 92-year-old woman, following which the patient returned to normal activity. We share their opinion that gratifying results are obtainable in patients of advanced age, and that a "generation gap" in this direction need not ...
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Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2009
Everybody is subject to a physical clock, determining the calendar age, and also to a biological clock, the speed of which depends on the interaction between the genetic reserves and the environment. Stress is taken into account more and more as one of the main factors responsible for the acceleration of the biological clock and the dishomogeneity of ...
TAFARO, LAURA +8 more
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Everybody is subject to a physical clock, determining the calendar age, and also to a biological clock, the speed of which depends on the interaction between the genetic reserves and the environment. Stress is taken into account more and more as one of the main factors responsible for the acceleration of the biological clock and the dishomogeneity of ...
TAFARO, LAURA +8 more
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Neurocognition of centenarians: neuropsychological study of élite centenarians
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2007AbstractObjectiveThe aim of this study was to evaluate the cognitive state of highly selected Polish centenarians and analyze the mechanisms of their functioning.MethodsThe selected centenarian group (10 persons) and a reference group (20 persons) who started aging (65 years) were examined with a sensitive set of neuropsychological tests and tasks in ...
E, Luczywek +8 more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1985
Surgical problems do not end on a person's centennial, and as our overall population ages, physicians will see increasing numbers of these most senior citizens requiring surgery. Accordingly, the records of all century-old patients who have undergone surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the years 1979 to 1983 were reviewed.
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Surgical problems do not end on a person's centennial, and as our overall population ages, physicians will see increasing numbers of these most senior citizens requiring surgery. Accordingly, the records of all century-old patients who have undergone surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the years 1979 to 1983 were reviewed.
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Smoking, aging and the centenarians
Experimental Gerontology, 2008The smoke of cigarettes represents an important accelerator of the aging process, both directly through complex mechanisms mediated prevalently by excessive formation of free radicals, and indirectly by favoring the appearance of various pathologies in which smoke is a recognized risk factor.
NICITA MAURO, Vittorio +5 more
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2002
Katarzyna, Wieczorowska-Tobis +4 more
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Katarzyna, Wieczorowska-Tobis +4 more
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Cytokine Network in Centenarians
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023Domenico Lo Tartaro +2 more
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