Morbidity and urological treatment failure in senile patients (satistical studies)
Article published in Urologia Polska 1978/31/3.

authors

Zygmunt Koczorowski, Leonard Teneta, Jerzy Zieliński

Instytut Chirurgii Śl. AM im. L. Waryńskiego
dyrektor: prof. dr hab. C. Sadliński
Klinika Urologii, kierownik: prof. dr hab. J. Zieliński

summary

From statistical data collected by Urological and General Out-patient Clinics and Depart-ments of Urology and Surgery it results that among urological patients are higher number of senile patients, e. g. 4—5 times more numerous are patients over 70 in the urological hospital in comparision with surgical one. Postoperative

morality of urological patients over 70 is over 20-fold higher than tłiose up to 50 years of age. Fatal embolism of pulmonary embolism is more freąuent in patients over 60 than in those between 40 and 60. Ocurrence of diseases and causes of deaths are significantly correlated with senile age.

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