[Prediction of surgical infections severity at elderly and old patients]

Clinical and immunological characteristics of generalized peritonitis in different age group at complicated and non-complicated postoperative period were analyzed at 246 patients with abdominal purulent infection. Prognostic criteria of complicated postoperative period at elderly and old patients have been determined. It is concluded that interpretation of immune characteristics permits to determine the prognostic criteria of disease course and outcome at various age group, and to use the rational immunocorrection.