… Although several risk factors for postoperative morbidity and mortality increase with age,
increasing age itself remains an important risk factor for postoperative morbidity and mortality. …

Objectives The aim of this study was to measure the level of preoperative anxiety in patients
scheduled for cardiac surgery, identify any influencing clinical factors, and assess the …

Magnesium is the second most abundant intracellular cation and the fourth most abundant
cation in the body. Clinical manifestations of hypomagnesaemia include neuromuscular, …

… and its effect on the postoperative morbidity of patients after surgery for colorectal cancer. …
In this study, the overall morbidity rate was 27.0% and the mortality rate was 0.3% after elective …

… Postoperative morbidity has the strongest association with … and clinical factors and post-operative
morbidity (Table 3). … feeding tube as associated with postoperative morbidity (all p ≤ …

… This investigation sought to identify risk factors for immediate postoperative morbidity and
mortality among a large series of patients undergoing spine surgery who were prospectively …

… The aims of this study were to describe the level and pattern of short-term postoperative
morbidity in a UK teaching hospital and to establish the reliability and validity of the POMS in …

… It may be a more meaningful figure than postoperative mortality rate. … a postoperative
mortality rate of 72 per cent. In 1980 Earlam and Cunha-Melo 1 calculated an overall mortality rate …

… Postoperative mortality was not analyzed because of the … of variables to predict morbidity
and mortality for 5 core general … The focus of this work was mortality and morbidity, defined as …

We found the recent article by Shih1 and coworkers very interesting. The authors retrospectively
analyzed the results of their management of a considerably sized series of patients (107…