ReviewJournal of neurology2020
The changing face of neurosurgery for the older person.
Review in Journal of neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Collaborative care pathways in geriatrics and neurosurgery: a scoping review of current practices.European geriatric medicine · 2026Review
- Awake craniotomy for brain tumor resection in the elderly: an institutional experience.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2026Article
- AI assisted prediction of unplanned intensive care admissions using natural language processing in elective neurosurgery.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Patient-reported outcome measures and satisfaction after laminectomy for degenerative cervical myelopathy in octogenarians: an observational study from the national Swedish spine registry.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2025Observational
- Minimally invasive approaches using virtual reality planning in elective aneurysm surgery.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
- Long-term outcomes after surgery for subaxial cervical spine injuries in octogenarians, a matched population-based cohort study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024Article
- Revitalizing neurosurgical frontiers: The EANS frontiers in neurosurgery committee's strategic framework.Brain & spine · 2024Article
- Multi-Stage Treatment for Spetzler-Martin Grades III, IV, and V Arteriovenous Malformations: Preoperative Embolization and Microsurgical Resection in a Consecutive Series of 250 Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Benchmarking short-term postoperative mortality across neurosurgery units: is hospital administrative data good enough for risk-adjustment?Acta neurochirurgica · 2023Article
- A Study on the Role of Intraoperative Corticobulbar Motor Evoked Potentials for Improving Safety of Cerebellopontine Angle Surgery in Elderly Patients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Increased life expectancy and illness prevention and treatment have led to a growing population of older patients. These changes in patient population are apparent in neurosurgery; however, relatively little is reported about specific outcomes and prognostication in this group. This review summarises the challenges and management changes occurring in the treatment of three common neurosurgical pathologies; aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage, head injury, and haemorrhagic stroke. A move towards less invasive neurosurgical techniques has implications on the risk-benefit profile of interventions. This creates the opportunity to intervene in older patients with greater co-morbidity, as long as improved outcomes can be evidenced. A critical part of assessing appropriateness for surgical intervention in older patients may be to change from a mindset of age to one of frailty and growing interest in scales assessing this may aid treatment decisions in the future.
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