Liver Diseases

Abstract

Liver diseases in the elderly often reflect an age-associated decrease in the capacity to respond to metabolic and infectious insults. Because the geriatric population is growing rapidly, physicians can expect to encounter an increasing number of older patients with liver disease. In this article, the authors discuss the clinical manifestations of the most common liver diseases seen in the geriatric population.

The Old and Ill: Influence and Impact on the Reconstructive Effort

“…Coagulation is almost normal in elderly persons who have no additional coagulation problem. 17 The senescent kidney reduces its mass primarily as a result of cortical tissue loss. 18 Cortical loss becomes evident as senescent glomerulosclerosis decreases cortical blood flow and as reduced cardiac output decreases renal blood flow.…”

Stochastic Stability Analysis of Power Control in Wireless Networks via a Norm-inequality-based Approach

“…With conventional matched filter receivers, the stochastic power control is shown by [6] to converge to the optimal power vector in the mean square error sense. These 846 R. Qian, Y. Qi results are later extended to the cases when a linear receiver or a decision feedback receiver is used [7,22]. In [9], a stochastic-approximation based power-control algorithm is proposed to handle both measurement errors and randomness in the channel gain matrix, which is proved to converge to the optimal solution in the mean-squared sense.…”