Geriatric Patient With Repetitive Hypoglycaemic Episodes

Reframing the geriatric patient.

The Geriatric Psittacine Patient

This article addresses the aging pet psittacine population’s geriatric disease conditions. Over the past twenty five years, avian husbandry and medicine have undergone drastic changes, including a significant increase in domestically raised pet birds and major advances in avian nutrition. Despite the potentially adverse psychological affects of incubator hatching and handraising (which is a sep...

Hypoglycaemic coma with chlorpropamide.

MILD hypoglycaemic reactions are well recognized as a complication of chlorpropamide therapy, and have been estimated as occurring in 7% of all cases (Stowers & Bewsher, 1962). Severe hypoglycaemic coma due to this drug seems, however, to have been infrequently recognized, and we have been able to find only four isolated reports of this condition in the literature (Coates & Robbins, 1959; Bloch...

Atypical SARS in Geriatric Patient

We describe an atypical presentation of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in a geriatric patient with multiple coexisting conditions. Interpretation of radiographic changes was confounded by cardiac failure, with resolution of fever causing delayed diagnosis and a cluster of cases. SARS should be considered even if a contact history is unavailable, during an ongoing outbreak.

Diabetes treatment and hypoglycaemic episodes in elderly patients at nursing homes in Uppsala County

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the situation for elderly patients with diabetes living in nursing homes with regard to diabetes treatment, clinical variables, and vascular complications associated with diabetes. A second aim was to evaluate if the patients were at risk of hypoglycaemia. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study including diabetes patients from all 30 nursing homes in...