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Clinical Remission in a 72-Year-Old Patient with a Massive Primary Cutaneous Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma-NOS of the Eyelid, Following Combination Chemotherapy with Etoposide Plus COP

Diagnostics, 2020
Peripheral T-cell lymphoma not otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS) is the rarest subtype of primary cutaneous lymphoma, accounting for approximately 2% of cutaneous lymphomas.
Sabina Iluta, Dragos-Alexandru Termure, Bobe Petrushev, Bogdan Fetica, Mindra-Eugenia Badea, Madalina Moldovan-Lazar, Manuela Lenghel, Csaba Csutak, Andrei Roman, Sergiu Pasca, Alina-Andreea Zimta, Ciprian Jitaru, Ciprian Tomuleasa, Rares-Calin Roman   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sepsis and Immunosenescence in the Elderly Patient: A Review

Frontiers in Medicine, 2017
Sepsis is a prevalent, serious medical condition with substantial mortality and a significant consumption of health-care resources. Its incidence has increased around 9% annually in general population over the last years and specially in aged patients ...
Silvia Martín, A. Pérez, C. Aldecoa
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Case of Multiple Liver Metastases after Surgery in Elderly HER2-Positive Breast Cancer in Which Anastrozole + Trastuzumab Was Ineffective but T-DM1 Was Effective

Case Reports in Oncology, 2021
Chemotherapy is often difficult to treat human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive metastatic recurrent breast cancer in the elderly, and no standard treatment has been established at this point. We experienced a case in which trastuzumab (
Tomohiro Shidahara, Shozo Ohsumi, Yuichiro Miyoshi, Mina Takahashi, Seiki Takashima, Kenjiro Aogi, Norihiro Teramoto   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epilepsy in elderly patients

Journal of the Turkish Epilepsi Society, 2015
Objectives:The incidence of new-onset epilepsy is high among the elderly. This study presents the demographic characteristics, etiological factors, seizure types and response rates to treatment in a group of patients aged 65 years or over with delayed-onset epilepsy.Methods:The study comprised a retrospective evaluation of the records of 43 patients ...
Halac, Gulistan, BİLGEN, HALİDE RENGİN, Kocaman, Gulsen, Niftaliyev, Elvin, DENİZ, ÇİĞDEM, ASİL, Talip   +5 more
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Multiple myeloma in the very elderly patient: challenges and solutions

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2016
Diagnosis and management of myeloma in the very elderly patient is challenging. Treatment options have vastly improved for elderly myeloma patients but still require the clinician to personalize therapy.
J. Willan, T. Eyre, F. Sharpley, C. Watson, A. King, K. Ramasamy   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Anemia in the frail, elderly patient

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2016
Anemia and frailty are two common findings in geriatric patients and have been shown to be associated with poor outcomes in this patient group. Recent studies have contributed to the growing evidence of a possible association with the age-related chronic
G. Röhrig
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating physical function and activity in the elderly patient using wearable motion sensors

EFORT Open Reviews, 2016
Wearable sensors, in particular inertial measurement units (IMUs) allow the objective, valid, discriminative and responsive assessment of physical function during functional tests such as gait, stair climbing or sit-to-stand.
B. Grimm, S. Bolink
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Neuromuscular blockade in the elderly patient

Journal of Pain Research, 2016
Neuromuscular blockade is a desirable or even essential component of general anesthesia for major surgical operations. As the population continues to age, and more operations are conducted in the elderly, due consideration must be given to neuromuscular ...
Luis A. Lee, V. Athanassoglou, J. Pandit
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Asthma in the elderly patient

Asthma Research and Practice, 2016
Asthma affects a significant proportion of elderly patients, but unfortunately, it is responsible for a high asthma-related morbidity and mortality in this population.
L. Boulet
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinical features of COVID-19 in elderly patients: A comparison with young and middle-aged patients

Journal of Infection, 2020
Background Due to the general susceptibility of new coronaviruses, the clinical characteristics and outcomes of elderly and young patients may be different.
Kai Liu, Ying Chen, R. Lin, Kunyuan Han
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