Investigation of Geriatric Patients with Abdominal Pain Admitted to Emergency Department.

Conclusion: Clinical findings become indistinct by age, and differential diagnosis of abdominal pain gets more difficult in geriatric patients. Therefore, physicians should consider age related physiological changes in order to distinguish geriatric patients admitted to emergency service with abdominal pain from pathological cases requiring immediate surgical operation. PMID: 30002677 [PubMed]
Source: Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research - Category: Geriatrics Tags: Curr Gerontol Geriatr Res Source Type: research