Francesco Puccetti, Alessandro Francesco Armienti, Stefano Turi, Lorenzo Cinelli, Riccardo Rosati, Ugo Elmore
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Abstract
Medical decisions driving the clinical management of octogenarians who require either major or urgent surgery still depend on the patient's age rather than individual functions. This report created the privileged opportunity to illustrate the clinical effectiveness of a comprehensive function-based assessment. This was the case of an 83-year-old gentleman presenting with severe malnutrition and debility due to esophageal cancer. Multidimensional assessments were systematically performed to design the best-tailored therapeutic strategy, including prehabilitation, elective esophagectomy, and emergency laparotomy with ileocolic resection for postoperative hemorrhagic shock due to an occult colonic tumor. This clinical case highlights the need for a systematic and comprehensive assessment of fragile octogenarians, allowing accurate patient evaluation, identification of areas of functional optimization, and establishment of the most appropriate therapeutic decisions.
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Physiological Reports is an online only, open access journal that will publish peer reviewed research across all areas of basic, translational, and clinical physiology and allied disciplines. Physiological Reports is a collaboration between The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society, and is therefore in a unique position to serve the international physiology community through quick time to publication while upholding a quality standard of sound research that constitutes a useful contribution to the field.