Gastrointestinal endoscopy in patients aged 75 years and older: risks, complications, and findings—a retrospective study

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 363-366

  Lippert, Elisabeth ^a   Herfarth, Hans H ^b   Grunert, Nicole ^a   Endlicher, Esther ^a   Klebl, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly patient; Endoscopy; Risk factors; Safety

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGE; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRADYCARDIA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; COLITIS; COLONIC NEOPLASIA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE ILEUS; GENDER; GERMANY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYP; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENESCENCE; SINUS NODE; STENOSIS; STOMACH PERFORATION; TACHYCARDIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; ULCER; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANESTHESIA; COMORBIDITY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84925507587     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: 14321262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-014-2088-3     Document Type: Article

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