Each year, roughly 2 million adults age 65 and older undergo surgery involving the abdomen. For most patients, risks for common types of abdominal surgery are minimal; however, a recent study has found that those risks increase with age.
According to a study published in December’s Archives of Surgery, people age 65 and older have a greater risk of experiencing complications and death after an abdominal operation.
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle looked medical records for more than 101,000 patients 65 and older. Each patient had undergone a hysterectomy, colectomy, cholecystectomy (removal of the gall bladder) or some other abdominal procedure between 1987 and 2004.
The research team found that about 17 percent of the patients experienced a complication within 90 days of the surgery and more than 5 percent died. For patients age 90 and older, nearly 23 percent had complications and almost 17 percent died following their abdominal operation.
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