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The elderly patient

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, 1983
Elderly patients' age affects various bio-psycho-social parameters of their diseases. A patient's old age itself often evokes a multiform recoil in dentists, directly opposite to the required therapeutic attitude. The essential principle in gerodontics is dentist-patient cooperation, attainable only if the latter is approached in a holistic and ...
U, Lowental, A, Mersel
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Acromegaly in the elderly patients

Endocrine, 2020
Acromegaly is a rare disease characterized by a chronic exposition to growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), caused in most cases by a pituitary GH-secreting adenoma. Chronic GH excess induces systemic complications (metabolic, cardiovascular, respiratory, neoplastic, and musculoskeletal) and increased mortality if not ...
Maria Rosaria Ambrosio, Irene Gagliardi, Sabrina Chiloiro, Ana Gonçalves Ferreira, Marta Bondanelli, Antonella Giampietro, Antonio Bianchi, Laura De Marinis, Maria Fleseriu, Maria Chiara Zatelli   +9 more
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The Care of Elderly Patients by Elderly Physicians

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1987
To examine the content of care that elderly patients receive from physicians 5.65 years of age, data from the 1981 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey were analyzed. Compared to physicians aged 35 to 54 years, elderly physicians devoted a larger proportion of their practices to the care of elderly patients.
D B, Reuben, J B, Robertson
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Cholecystectomy in elderly patients

The American Journal of Surgery, 1983
Cholecystectomy was performed in 93 patients over the age of 70 years with an overall mortality of 7.5 percent. Complications occurred in 28 percent. Patients who underwent elective operations fared far better than those who required emergency surgery.
D F, Huber, E W, Martin, M, Cooperman
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