Risks and rewards of the surgical treatment of lung cancer in octogenarians.

Objectives: Surgeons will face an increasing number of octogenarians with lung cancer potentially curable by surgery. The goal of this study was to evaluate short- and long-term outcomes after lung resection.

Methods: We performed a single-centre study of consecutive patients ≥80 years old, surgically treated for suspected lung cancer between 2009 and 2016.

Quality of Life in Octogenarians After Lung Resection Compared to Younger Patients.

Introduction: To evaluate postoperative outcome and quality of life (QOL), comparing patients <80 years old to patients ≥ 80.

Patients And Methods: EORTC questionnaires, QLQ-C30 and QLQ-LC13 was used to assess QOL, in patients after surgery. Results were evaluated according to 3 age groups: <70, 70 to 79, and ≥80.

Posterior mediastinal Müllerian cyst: a rare cause of pain in a young woman.

Thoracic pain in a young woman carries a wide differential diagnosis. We present the case of a 37-year-old woman who presented with thoracic pain due to a posterior mediastinal Müllerian cyst. Excision was performed by left uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

Treatment of advanced peripheral arterial insufficiency in the elderly.

Peripheral arterial insufficiency appears at all stages regardless of the patient age; however its appearance is most common in the elderly in which cases it mostly appears as stage described by Fontaine as stage III or IV The most com- mon cause of peripheral arterial insufficiency is atherosclerotic degeneration, and is remarkably often accompanied by the diabetes. In the years 2012 and 2013 department of vascular surgery, University Hospital Rijeka admitted 169 patients older than 70 with peripheral arterial insufficiency of type Fontaine III and IV That number represents 68.8% of total number of patients admitted for peripheral arterial insufficiency.

Polytrauma in elderly.

The aim of this study is to present certain particularities in treating polytraumatized patients age of 65 and above. All of the patients were treated in our hospital. 413 patients were included in this 4 year study (2006-2010).

Initial experience with external thoracic stabilization by the "figure of eight" osteosynthesis in polytraumatized patients with flail chest injury.

The aim of this study was to describe initial experience with external thoracic stabilization by the "figure of eight" osteosynthesis in polytraumatized patients with flail chest injury. From January 2002, fifteen patients underwent this surgical procedure at the University Hospital of Rijeka. Their mean age was 52 +/- 13.

Off-pump versus on-pump--intermittent aortic cross clamping--myocardial revascularisation: single center expirience.

The aim of this randomised, prospective study was to evaluate hospital mortality and morbidity after myocardial revascularisation, comparing on-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) myocardial revascularisation versus off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCAB) myocardial revascularisation in population with multivessels coronary artery disease. Sixty patients with multivessels coronary artery diseases were scheduled to undergo coronary artery bypass grafting from January 15, 2006 to June 30, 2007 in our institution. Patients were randomized to off-pump or on-pump surgery with intermittent cross-clamping of aorta and ventricular fibrillation, using the envelope method with random numbers.