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Oral care needs, barriers and challenges among elderly in India

The Journal of Indian Prosthodontic Society, 2015
Objective: This paper presents an approach to the assessment of oral health needs of elderly and barriers to receive oral care in the life course. Background: The dental needs of the elderly are changing and growing day by day.
Ramesh Bharti, Anil Chandra, Aseem Prakash Tikku, Deeksha Arya, Richa Gupta   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID‐19 and cardiovascular problems in elderly patients: Food for thought

Aging Medicine, 2021
The global number of COVID‐19 infections, as of December 23, 2020, stood at approximately 79 million, with over 1.7 million deaths. The development of vascular inflammation may also contribute to a hypercoagulable state and endothelial dysfunction in ...
Raffaele Costa, Alberto Castagna, Giovanni Ruotolo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thermodilution vs estimated Fick cardiac output measurement in an elderly cohort of patients: A single-centre experience [PDF]

, 2019
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, Alogna, Allesio, Faragli, Alessandro, Kresoja, Karl-Patrik, Paul, Oliver, Pieske, Burkert, Post, Heiner   +6 more
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Consensus on Psychotherapies and Adjuvant Therapies for Elderly Patients with Hospice Care and Primary Caregivers

Yixue yu zhexue
Hospice care plays a vital role in supporting elderly end-of-life patients and their primary caregivers, but there is a lack of consensus on psychotherapies and adjuvant therapies in this field.
The Expert Group of Consensus on Psychotherapies and Adjuvant Therapies for Elderly Patients and Primary Caregivers in Hospice Care
doaj   +1 more source

Tone-in-noise detection deficits in elderly patients with clinically normal hearing [PDF]

, 2019
One of the most common complaints among the elderly is the inability to understand speech in noisy environments. In many cases, these deficits are due to age-related hearing loss; however, some of the elderly that have difficulty hearing in noise have ...
Cappelli, Giampietro, De Vincentiis, Marco, Greco, Antonio, Neri, Ilaria, Ralli, Massimo, Salvi, Richard, Sheppard, Adam   +6 more
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COVID-19 and renal disease in elderly patients

Geriatric Care, 2020
The pandemic blast of COVID-19 uncovered well known weakness of financial chain and put our economic organizations facing off dramatic consequences if new strategies will not be developed to adapt health-care on detailed sub-groups of patients.
Giuseppe Coppolino, Pierangela Presta, Ramona Nicotera, Giordano Placida, Caterina Vita, Nazzareno Carullo, Michele Andreucci, Davide Bolignano, Alberto Castagna, Giovanni Ruotolo   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of short-term mortality in elderly patients with sepsis using immunoglobulin G2: An observational study

Heliyon, 2022
Background: Sepsis is a global healthcare issue and continues to cause high mortality especially in elderly patients. The humoral immune system plays an important role in protecting from microbial contamination.
Fang Zhang, Tiantian Wan, Xin Liu, Shubin Guo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outcome of very elderly (octogenarians) patients with coronary artery disease, all diagnosed by coronary angiography [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Women with ischemic heart disease (IHD) typically present less severe coronary artery atherosclerosis. Despite that, as compared with men, women maintain a worse outcome.
Arrivi, Alessio, Basili, Stefania, Marcello Dominici and Enrico Mangieri,, Nicola, Viceconte, Raparelli, Valeria, Sperduti, Nicolo', Tanzilli, Alessandra, Tanzilli, Gaetano, Truscelli, Giovanni   +8 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fatal lymphoproliferation and acute monocytic leukemia-like disease following infectious mononucleosis in the elderly [PDF]

, 1981
Three elderly patients are reported, in whom serologically confirmed recent infectious mononucleosis is followed by fatal lymphoproliferation (case 1), by acute monocytic leukemia (case 2), and by acute probably monocytic leukemia (case 3)
Deinhardt, F., Hehlmann, R., Schmid, M., Walther, B., Wolf, Hans J., Zöllner, N.   +5 more
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