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Anorexia, Jaundice, Hyperglycemia, and Elevated Serum IgG4 Level
In this paper, we report an elderly patient who had been experiencing poor appetite for one month and yellowing of the skin and sclera for two months before visiting the Department of Geriatrics at Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
ZHANG Ning +9 more
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Thermodilution vs estimated Fick cardiac output measurement in an elderly cohort of patients: A single-centre experience [PDF]
AIMS: Patients referred to the cath-lab are an increasingly elderly population. Thermodilution (TD, gold standard) and the estimated Fick method (eFM) are interchangeably used in the clinical routine to measure cardiac output (CO).
Abawi, Dawud +6 more
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ObjectivesLack of assessment of 90-d perioperative morbidity in elderly patients after radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) using a standard reporting methodology, and the Clavien–Dindo classification (CDC) does not accurately ...
Haiwen Huang +13 more
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Durable response using regorafenib in an elderly patient with metastatic colorectal cancer: case report. [PDF]
Regorafenib, an oral multikinase inhibitor, was approved in September 2012 by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
Herman, June +3 more
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BackgroundElderly stroke survivors are encouraged to receive appropriate health information to prevent recurrences. After discharge, older patients seek health information in everyday contexts, examining aspects that facilitate or impair healthy behavior.
Yufan Hu +8 more
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Trauma in the Elderly Patient [PDF]
Advanced age is a well-known risk factor for poor outcomes in trauma patients. Older patients can benefit from the intensive monitoring and aggressive management associated with trauma team involvement. Several common topics were chosen for discussion in which the treatment options may differ slightly because of the advanced age of the patient.
Gregory P, Victorino +2 more
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Cognitive dysfunction following desflurane versus sevoflurane general anesthesia in elderly patients: a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
UnlabelledAs life expectancy increases, more patients ≥65 years undergo general anesthesia. Anesthetic agents may contribute to postoperative cognitive dysfunction, and incidence may differ with anesthetic agents or intraoperative anesthesia depth ...
Allard, Martin +7 more
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Economic viability of eCare solutions [PDF]
Provisioning of good quality care to the elderly population and at the same time reducing the pressure on the health care expenditures is a challenging issue for governments today.
Ackaert, Ann +5 more
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Dengue in an elderly patient [PDF]
Although elderly populations are more exposed to the risk of getting dengue, the clinical peculiarities of this disease in this age range are not well known. This report is about an 80-year-old woman with dengue complications, self-medicated with salicylate.
Milton Luiz, Gorzoni +2 more
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e-Health: A Future Solution for Optimized Management of Elderly Patients. GER-e-TEC™ Project
Background: Elderly residents in nursing homes have multiple comorbidities (including cognitive and psycho-behavioral pathologies, malnutrition, heart failure, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and renal failure) and use multiple ...
Abrar-Ahmad Zulfiqar +12 more
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