Thyroid surgery in octogenarians is associated with higher complication rates

Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 913-921

  Mekel, Michal ^a   Stephen, Antonia E ^a   Gaz, Randall D ^a   Perry, Zvi H ^b   Hodin, Richard A ^a   Parangi, Sareh ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENDER; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GERIATRIC SURGERY; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LARYNX EDEMA; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; THYROID CANCER; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROID TUMOR; THYROIDECTOMY; TOXIC GOITER; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSTEADINESS; URINE RETENTION; UROSEPSIS; VOCAL CORD DISORDER; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349759466     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Beahrs O.H. Surgery of thyroid and parathyroid disorders in the aged. In: Adkins R.B., and Scott H.W. (Eds). Surgical care for the elderly (1988), Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore 128-137
2. Kinsella K., and Velkoff V.A. An aging world: 2001 (2001), U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC
3. Finlayson E., Fan Z., and Birkmeyer J.D. Outcomes in octogenarians undergoing high-risk cancer operation: a national study. J Am Coll Surg 205 (2007) 729-734
4. Finlayson E.V., and Birkmeyer J.D. Operative mortality with elective surgery in older adults. Eff Clin Pract 4 (2001) 172-177
5. Bliss R., Patel N., Guinea A., Reeve T.S., and Delbridge L. Age is no contraindication to thyroid surgery. Age Ageing 28 (1999) 363-366
6. Passler C., Avanessian R., Kaczirek K., Prager G., Scheuba C., and Niederle B. Thyroid surgery in the geriatric patient. Arch Surg 137 (2002) 1243-1248
7. Sosa J.A., Mehta P.J., Wang T.S., Boudourakis L., and Roman S.A. A population-based study of outcomes from thyroidectomy in aging Americans: at what cost?. J Am Coll Surg 206 (2008) 1097-1105
8. Charlson M.E., Pompei P., Ales K.L., and MacKenzie C.R. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: development and validation. J Chronic Dis 40 (1987) 373-383
9. Clark O.H., and Demling R. Management of thyroid nodules in the elderly. Am J Surg 132 (1976) 615-619
10. Rios A., Rodriguez J.M., Galindo P.J., Canteras M., and Parrilla P. Surgical treatment for multinodular goitres in geriatric patients. Langenbeck Arch Surg/Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Chirurgie 390 (2005) 236-242
11. Kikuchi S., Perrier N.D., Cheah W.K., Siperstein A.E., Duh Q.Y., and Clark O.H. Complication of thyroidectomy in patients with radiation-induced thyroid neoplasms. Arch Surg 139 (2004) 1185-1188
12. Liu Q., Djuricin G., and Prinz R.A. Total thyroidectomy for benign thyroid disease. Surgery 123 (1998) 2-7
13. Sosa J.A., Bowman H.M., Tielsch J.M., Powe N.R., Gordon T.A., and Udelsman R. The importance of surgeon experience for clinical and economic outcomes from thyroidectomy. Ann Surg 228 (1998) 320-330
14. Saunders B.D., Wainess R.M., Dimick J.B., Doherty G.M., Upchurch G.R., and Gauger P.G. Who performs endocrine operations in the United States?. Surgery 134 (2003) 924-931
15. Johnson E.M., Remucal M.J., Gillingham K.J., Dahms R.A., Najarian J.S., and Matas A.J. Complications and risks of living donor nephrectomy. Transplantation 64 (1997) 1124-1128
16. Livingston E.H., Huerta S., Arthur D., Lee S., De Shields S., and Heber D. Male gender is a predictor of morbidity and age a predictor of mortality for patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery. Ann Surg 236 (2002) 576-582
17. Craft P.S., May J., Dorigo A., Hoy C., and Plant A. Hickman catheters: left-sided insertion, male gender, and obesity are associated with an increased risk of complications. Aust N Z J Med 26 (1996) 33-39
18. Sanabria A., Carvalho A.L., Melo R.L., Magrin J., Ikeda M.K., Vartanian J.G., et al. Predictive factors for complications in elderly patients who underwent head and neck oncologic surgery. Head Neck 30 (2008) 170-177
19. Hsieh Y.C., Frink M., Choudhry M.A., Bland K.I., and Chaudry I.H. Metabolic modulators following trauma sepsis: sex hormones. Crit Care Med 35 Suppl 9 (2007) S621-S629
20. Mazzaferri E.L., and Jhiang S.M. Long-term impact of initial surgical and medical therapy on papillary and follicular thyroid cancer. Am J Med 97 (1994) 418-428
21. Machens A., Hauptmann S., and Dralle H. Disparities between male and female patients with thyroid cancers: sex difference or gender divide?. Clin Endocrinol 65 (2006) 500-505
22. Shetty K.R., and Duthie Jr. E.H. Thyroid disease and associated illness in the elderly. Clin Geriatr Med 11 (1995) 311-325
23. Cooper D.S., Doherty G.M., Haugen B.R., Kloos R.T., Lee S.L., Mandel S.J., et al. Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid 16 (2006) 109-142
24. Gaz R.D. Endocrine surgery in the elderly. In: Katlic M.R. (Ed). Geriatric surgery (1990), Urban & Schwarzenberg, Baltimore 393-409
25. Vini L., Hyer S.L., Marshall J., A'Hern R., and Harmer C. Long-term results in elderly patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Cancer (2003) 1;97:2736-42