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Aktuelle Gerontol
; 7(8): 447-53, 1977 Aug.
Artigo
em Alemão
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20805
RESUMO
The urinary bladder of the elderly is showing a reduced adaptability on account of morphological changes; it is therefore more prone to infections. The morphological changes consist in a reduction of muscle fibres and in an increase of collagen fibres and in elastosis, furthermore in a sklerosis of the intramural arteries. 58% of our chronically - ill patients prove to have a chronic infection of the urinary tract.