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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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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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Hyperparathyroidism in the Elderly Patient

Drugs & Aging, 2004
Primary hyperparathyroidism is a common metabolic bone disease and currently presents a significant management dilemma. Most of the patients have few relevant symptoms and surgical parathyroidectomy offers the prospect of cure with freedom from the risk of long-term complications or the need for a follow-up.
Rebecca, Sims, Charanjeit, Ubhi, David, Hosking   +2 more
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Patient satisfaction and the elderly

Social Science & Medicine, 1996
There is considerable current interest in patient satisfaction surveys; among other things they are often used to measure quality in health care. However, there are many unresolved issues concerning them, including how they might best be conducted. Some have challenged their raison d'-etre, arguing that they rely on unproven assumptions -1; Williams ...
D J, Owens, C, Batchelor
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Hemodialysis in elderly patients

International Urology and Nephrology, 2000
As the general population in North America ages, those with end-stage renal disease age even more rapidly: the fasting growing segment of the dialysis population are those 65 years of age and older [1]. Table 1 shows the point prevalence and rates of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) by age group for the United States on Dec.
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Hyperthyroidism in elderly patients

AORN Journal, 1999
Hyperthyroid disorders occur in older people and often are present with atypical findings or as apathetic hyperthyroidism. Hyperthyroidism exacerbates underlying chronic disease, especially cardiovascular conditions. Elderly people can be treated successfully and stabilized with careful screening, astute diagnostics, and appropriate therapy.
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Polyneuropathy in elderly patients

Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii im. S.S. Korsakova, 2015
In this article, the authors consider the characteristics of pathogenesis and clinical picture of peripheral nervous system lesions in elderly patients. Current approaches to pathogenetic and symptomatic treatment of polyneuropathy in elderly patients are analyzed.
L T, Akhmedzhanova, A N, Barinov
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Diuretics for elderly patients

Journal of Hypertension, 1990
Diuretics compare well with the large number of other classes of antihypertensive agents now available as first-line treatment in the elderly. Other drugs might be considered for first-line treatment in elderly patients with diabetes, untreated gout, or renal failure, a previous myocardial infarction or multiple ventricular ectopics and for men ...
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Anemia in the elderly patient

Medical Clinics of North America, 1992
Anemia is one of the most common disorders in elderly patients. The pathophysiology of anemia is the same in the young as well as the old. However, the common presence of multiorgan dysfunction or disease in elderly patients can alter the clinical presentation, response to treatment, and prognosis of anemia in this group.
A, Mansouri, D A, Lipschitz
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