[Surgical treatment of lung cancer in patients over 80 years of age]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie raka legkogo u lits starshe 80 let.

Growth of the specific fraction of individuals over 80 years of age among patients with lung carcinoma is illustrated by its incidence in Moscow. These patients account today for up to 8% of the total number of cases. Some of them may be successfully treated by operation. This was demonstrated in 11 cases. Recommendations on pre- and postoperative management of such patients are given. The authors emphasize that the patient's fate and the method of treatment should be prescribed only in an oncological medical institution.

[Risk of surgery at the height of a gastroduodenal hemorrhage]. / Risk operatsii na vysote gastro-duodenal'nogo krovotecheniia.

The authors believe that the decrease of mortality in operations for gastroduodenal bleeding does not depend on the time interval between the start of bleeding and surgical interventions, but it depends upon the conditions under which these interventions are carried out. The conditions should approximate the conditions existing in planned gastric surgery as much as possible. In this regard the results of the treatment of 188 cases with massive gastroduodenal bleeding (69 cases aged over 60) are analyzed. The applied method permitted to ensure a sufficient volume of the examination of a case and of his preparation to the operation to avoid "desperate operations" and to decrease considerably the mortality in gastroduodenal bleeding. Among patients under 65 there were no fatal cases.