Effect of patient age on increasing morbidity and mortality following urogynecologic surgery

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1411-1417

  Sung, Vivian W ^a   Weitzen, Sherry ^a   Sokol, Eric R ^a   Rardin, Charles R ^a   Myers, Deborah L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Morbidity; Mortality; Pelvic floor disorders; Urogynecologic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UROGENITAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 33646082006     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2006.01.050     Document Type: Article

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