The clinical observations were made on the aged patients over 60 years old admitted in Department of Urology, Kobe University during the period of 1967 to 1971.
Aged patients over 60 years old occupied about one third of all in-patients, and about one third of them were admitted for treatment of benign prostate hypertrophy.
Abnormality rates in the examination findings increased with age, and became more marked after operation.
On admission, there were no special differences in the abnormality rates between postoperative death cases and alive-discharged cases, while general findings of non-operative death cases were significantly impaired. In prostatectomy, massive bleeding during operation delayed the discharge from hospital. In nephrectomy, aged patients suffered more disturbances in physical condition than in other urologic surgery, and on the other hand, prime patients suffered less.
