著者
Koji Tamai Hidetomi Terai Akinobu Suzuki Hiroaki Nakamura Masaomi Yamashita Yawara Eguchi Shiro Imagama Kei Ando Kazuyoshi Kobayashi Morio Matsumoto Ken Ishii Tomohiro Hikata Shoji Seki Masaaki Aramomi Tetsuhiro Ishikawa Atsushi Kimura Hirokazu Inoue Gen Inoue Masayuki Miyagi Wataru Saito Kei Yamada Michio Hongo Kenji Endo Hidekazu Suzuki Atsushi Nakano Kazuyuki Watanabe Junichi Ohya Hirotaka Chikuda Yasuchika Aoki Masayuki Shimizu Toshimasa Futatsugi Keijiro Mukaiyama Masaichi Hasegawa Katsuhito Kiyasu Haku Iizuka Kotaro Nishida Kenichiro Kakutani Hideaki Nakajima Hideki Murakami Satoru Demura Satoshi Kato Katsuhito Yoshioka Takashi Namikawa Kei Watanabe Kazuyoshi Nakanishi Yukihiro Nakagawa Mitsunori Yoshimoto Hiroyasu Fujiwara Norihiro Nishida Masataka Sakane Masashi Yamazaki Takashi Kaito Takeo Furuya Sumihisa Orita Seiji Ohtori
出版者
The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research
雑誌
Spine Surgery and Related Research (ISSN:2432261X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.1, no.4, pp.179-184, 2017-10-20 (Released:2017-11-27)
参考文献数
26
被引用文献数
3 3

Introduction: With an aging population, the proportion of patients aged ≥80 years requiring cervical surgery is increasing. Surgeons are concerned with the high incidence of complications in this population, because "age" itself has been reported as a strong risk factor for complications. However, it is still unknown which factors represent higher risk among these elderly patients. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the risk factors related to surgical complications specific to elderly patients by analyzing the registry data of patients aged ≥80 years who underwent cervical surgery.Methods: We retrospectively studied multicenter collected registry data using multivariate analysis. Sixty-six patients aged ≥80 years who underwent cervical surgery and were followed up for more than one year were included in this study. Preoperative patient demographic data, including comorbidities and postoperative complications, were collected from multicenter registry data. Complications were considered as major if they required invasive intervention, caused prolonged morbidity, or resulted in prolongation of hospital stay. Logistic regression analysis was performed to analyze the risk factors for complications. A p-value of <0.05 was considered as statistically significant.Results: The total number of patients with complications was 21 (31.8%), with seven major (10.6%) and 14 minor (21.2%) complications. Multivariate logistic regression analysis, after adjusting for age, revealed two significant risk factors: preoperative cerebrovascular disorders (OR, 6.337; p=0.043) for overall complications and cancer history (OR, 8.168; p=0.021) for major complications. Age, presence of diabetes mellitus, and diagnosis were not significant predictive factors for complications in this study.Conclusions: Preoperative cerebrovascular disorders and cancer history were risk factors for complications after cervical surgery in patients over 80 years old. Surgeons should pay attention to these specific risk factors before performing cervical surgery in elderly patients.
著者
Akira SATO Goro ARAGANE Satoshi OGATA Kei YAMADA Shiro YOSHIMATSU
出版者
The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
雑誌
Transactions of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (ISSN:00211583)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.26, no.11, pp.949-954, 1986 (Released:2006-09-08)
参考文献数
14
被引用文献数
1

The oxidation rates of the elements in molten pig iron weighing 1kg contained in a graphite or an alumina crucible were measured by adding Fe2O3, CaO, Na2CO3, BaO, BaCO3, and Li2CO3 onto the bath. The dissolution rate of B2O3 in slag in distilled water or HCl solution was estimated by adding 10g of slag into water or a solution of 300cm3, stirring for 30min, and filtering.Boron in pig iron was effectively oxidized and trapped in the slag by the addition of Fe2O3 containing high basic fluxes under a higher oxidation atmosphere at low temperatures. Recovery of B2O3 can effectively be made by the dissolution of slag in distilled water at 100°C and more efficiently in HCl solution above 0.25N at 50°C. The dissolution of B2O3 in water was interfered by MnO, FeO, and SiO2.