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- Title
Intra-abdominal Sepsis in Elderly Persons.
- Authors
Podnos, Yale D.; Jimenez, Juan Carlos; Wilson, Samuel E.
- Abstract
Elderly patients represent a greater percentage of the population now than ever before, with 12.4% of North Americans being >65 years of age. Intra-abdominal illnesses in this population often have different etiologies than those seen in younger populations. Because of a variety of physiologic changes that occur as people age, elderly persons have different sites of infection, may present with vague symptoms and longer histories, are more gravely ill, and, overall, have worse prognoses. The major causes of intra-abdominal sepsis in elderly persons are reviewed, explanations for the differences in presentation and prognosis are offered, and the treatments of each cause are reviewed.
- Subjects
SEPSIS; COMMUNICABLE diseases in old age; DISEASES in older people
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2002, Vol 35, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/340866