[Gynecologic surgery in geriatric patients]

To establish a precise definition for the geriatric patient, results difficult, since the age limits change constantly and arbitrary way, but given that women are living longer, supposedly the rate of gynecologic surgery is increasing.

To inform the experience obteined in our service, from geriatric patients, with surgical intervention, and compare the results with published articles from other national gynecology services.

In the gynecology service of Specialties Hospital "Dr. Miguel Dorantes Mesa" from the S.S., in Xalapa Veracruz, México, a retrospective study was performed, from 76 cases of patients with gynecologic surgery. The research variables were: 60 years old or older, personal pathologic data, gynecologic and obstetrics, occupation, preoperative diagnosis, type of intervention, anatomopathologic diagnosis, anesthesia employed, complications during of after surgery, days in the hospital, hemoglobin and hematocrit.

Most of the patients were 65 to 70 years old, 100% housewives, pelvic statics alterations were present in most cases (53.9%), followed by pre-malignant and malignant diseases of the cervix, the abdominal hysterectomy was indicated in 29 cases, 65.7% had personal pathologic data, the anatomopathologic study confirmed 85% of the cases, days-hospital average was 5.8.

Survivorship does not depend by type of surgery or age, if not to concomitant illness.