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Benign Disease of Stomach and Duodenum

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The normal physiology of the stomach and duodenum undergoes several changes as patients increase in age. Patients become more susceptible to H. pylori infection and the complications related to it, such as peptic ulcer disease, gastric volvulus, and gastric polyps. In addition, patients develop more comorbidities as they age, causing the impact of their disease and complications to be greater. Due to the changes of aging, patients require special perioperative considerations that involve the entire care team. Medical and surgical therapies must be tailored for the elderly patient.

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  1. Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, KB 404, 1720 2nd Ave S, Birmingham, 35294, USA

    Britney L. Corey, Jayleen M. Grams, John D. Christein & Selwyn M. Vickers

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  1. Surgical Service, Yale University School of Medicine VA Connecticut Health Care System, West Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Ronnie A. Rosenthal

  2. SUNY Downstate School of Public Health, National Capital Region Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Michael E. Zenilman

  3. Center for Geriatric Surgery, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Mark R. Katlic

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Jason Johanning

  2. Duke Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

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Corey, B.L., Grams, J.M., Christein, J.D., Vickers, S.M. (2017). Benign Disease of Stomach and Duodenum. In: Rosenthal, R., Zenilman, M., Katlic, M. (eds) Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20317-1_66-1

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