Acute kidney injury in the elderly: predisposition to chronic kidney disease and vice versa. [PDF]
, 2011 There have been considerable advances in the past few years in our understanding of how chronic kidney disease (CKD) predisposes to acute kidney injury (AKI) and vice versa.
Cho, Kerry C +2 more
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Hypothermia in the elderly: The syndrome you least expect
South African Family Practice, 1982 No abstract available.
R.E. Carlson, P.J. Hering
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Physical activity intervention for elderly patients with reduced physical performance after acute coronary syndrome (HULK study): Rationale and design of a randomized clinical trial [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Reduced physical performance and impaired mobility are common in elderly patients after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and they represent independent risk factors for disability, morbidity, hospital readmission and mortality.
Biscaglia, Simone +19 more
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Age Is No Longer a Limit: Two Cases of Hepatectomy in Patients Over 90 Years Old
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2015 Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignant tumor with poor prognosis. The age of patients affected by HCC is considered to be increasing, and several studies have reported significantly higher rates of morbidity and mortality after hepatectomy ...
Shugo Uwatoko +7 more
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Name relearning in elderly patients with schizophrenia: episodic and temporary, not semantic and permanent [PDF]
, 2006 Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713659088--Copyright Informa / Taylor and FrancisIntroduction . Recent reports of lexical-semantic deficits in patients with schizophrenia (Laws, Al-Uzri, & Mortimer, 2000;
Hirsch, S.R., Kondel, T.K., Laws, K.R.
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Is Low Alveolar Type II Cell SOD3 in the Lungs of Elderly Linked to the Observed Severity of COVID-19? [PDF]
, 2020 Human lungs single cell RNA sequencing data from healthy donors (elderly and young; GEO accession number GSE122960) were analyzed to isolate and specifically study gene expression in alveolar type II cells.
Abouhashem, Ahmed S. +3 more
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Trends in the Use of Intensive Care by Very Elderly Patients and Their Clinical Course in a Single Tertiary Hospital in Korea [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2016 Background: The number of elderly patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) is growing with the increasing proportion of elderly persons in the Korean general population. It is often difficult to make decisions about ICU care for elderly patients,
Junghyun Kim +10 more
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Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology, 2021 Background: Unhealthy teeth can seriously affect general health and increase the risk of death in elderly people. There has been no confirmation of which device is most effective for elderly patients with teeth loss.
Xiaoyan Ge +5 more
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Metronomic chemotherapy preserves quality of life ensuring efficacy in elderly advanced non small cell lung cancer patients [PDF]
, 2016 Metastatic non small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) are diseases with poor prognosis and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy still remains their standard cure.
DE IULIIS, Francesca +5 more
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Long-term postoperative pneumonia in elderly patients with early gastric cancer
BMC Surgery, 2022 Background Pneumonia is a major cause of death in the elderly population. Considering body weight loss, muscle loss, and reflux after gastrectomy, elderly patients are considered to be at very high risk for pneumonia, which could decrease overall ...
Ayako Kamiya +8 more
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