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Elective and emergency abdominal surgery in patients 90 years of age or older

Author(s) -

Jennifer M. Racz,

Luc Dubois,

Adam Katchky,

William W. Wall

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.007611

Subject(s) - medicine , perioperative , abdominal surgery , surgery , mortality rate , anastomosis , bowel obstruction , intensive care unit , retrospective cohort study , elective surgery , general surgery

Few studies have examined perioperative outcomes in nonagenarians undergoing abdominal surgery, and fewer have reported on 1-year mortality. Our objectives were to determine the outcomes of abdominal surgery in nonagenarians and to assess the performance of Physiologic and Operative Severity Score for enUmeration of Mortality and morbidity (POSSUM) and Portsmouth-POSSUM (p- POSSUM) as predictors of mortality.

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