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Feed-back between geriatric syndromes: general system theory in geriatrics

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Geriatrics has described three entities : confusional syndrome, incontinente and gait disorders, calling them geriatric giants. Aging process also induces changes in renal physiology such as glomerular filtration rate reduction, and alteration in water and electrolytes handling. These ageing renal changes have been named as nephrogeriatric giants. These two groups of giants, geriatric and nephrogeriatric, can predispose and potentiate each other leading old people to fatal outcomes. These phenomenon of feed-back between these geriatric syndromes has its roots in the loss of complexity that the ageing process has. Complexity means that all the body systems work harmoniously. The process of senescence weakens this coordination among systems undermining complexity and making the old person frail.

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  1. Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires-Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Carlos G. Musso

  2. Hospital Universitario de Salamanca-España, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan F. Macías Núñez

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Musso, C.G., Núñez, J.F.M. Feed-back between geriatric syndromes: general system theory in geriatrics. Int Urol Nephrol 38, 785–786 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-005-0060-4

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