Renal insufficiency predicts mortality in geriatric patients undergoing emergent general surgery

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1322-1325

  Yaghoubian, Arezou ^a   Ge, Phillip ^a   Tolan, Amy ^a   Saltmarsh, Guy ^a   Kaji, Amy H ^a   Neville, Angela L ^a   Bricker, Scott ^a   De Virgilio, Christian ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIVERTICULITIS; GENERAL SURGERY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LARGE INTESTINE PERFORATION; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80755125586     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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