Institutional report - Thoracic non-oncologic Thoracic surgery in the elderly - co-morbidity is the limit

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 412-416

  Limmer, Stefan ^a   Hauenschild, Lena ^a   Eckmann, Christian ^a   Czymek, Ralf ^a   Schmidt, Henriette ^a   Bruch, Hans Peter ^a   Kujath, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elderly patient; Lung cancer; Operative mortality; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CHYLOTHORAX; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; SEROMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX SURGERY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND HEALING; BLOOD; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GERMANY; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65249168140     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.191346     Document Type: Article

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