Abstract
Background Hyperthyroidism in elderly patients is not to be underevaluated, since it is characterized in such an age range by particular clinical and prognostic features, surgery is the principal treatment of hyperthyroidism, even if therapy and percutaneous alcoholization may play an alternative role in some cases. However the surgical risk may be high in elderly because the presence of comorbidity. The aim of this study is to valuate the early and later prognosis after surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism in geriatric patients.
Highlights
XI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Francesco Sciannameo, Giammario Giustozzi and Beatrice Sensi Publication of this supplement was made possible with support from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2318-9-S1
Hyperthyroidism in elderly patients is not to be underevaluated, since it is characterized in such an age range by particular clinical and prognostic features, surgery is the principal treatment of hyperthyroidism, even if therapy and percutaneous alcoholization may play an alternative role in some cases
In the period between 1978–2008 out of 2167 patients surgically treated for thyroid disease on Surgery Unit of University of L'Aquila, 233 (10.7%) subjects presented hyperthyroidism: 46 were in geriatric age range
Summary
Hyperthyroidism in elderly patients is not to be underevaluated, since it is characterized in such an age range by particular clinical and prognostic features, surgery is the principal treatment of hyperthyroidism, even if therapy and percutaneous alcoholization may play an alternative role in some cases. Address: 1Surgery Unit, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy and 2Geriatric Surgery, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy * Corresponding author from XXI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Terni, Italy. Published: 1 April 2009 BMC Geriatrics 2009, 9(Suppl 1):A33 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-9-S1-A33
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