Gerontologists: age is not a hindrance for complex operations
Contraindications to high-tech operations in elderly patients with multiple diseases can only be their condition, and there are no age restrictions. This was told to Rossiyskaya Gazeta in the Russian Gerontological Scientific and Clinical Center of the Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov of the Ministry of Health of Russia. At the recent All-Russian Congress on Gerontology and Geriatrics, Russian Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko said that doctors cannot refuse complex care to a patient only on the basis that he is at an advanced age...