[Peculiarities of the surgical treatment of thyrotoxicosis in the aged].

With an increasing frequency, recorded by most of the statistics, the thyrotoxicosis of the aged present themselves, most often, under uncharacteristic clinical aspects, often delusive. Out of a series of 37 thyrotoxic patients (representing 9.2% of all cases of thyrotoxicosis admitted to the Ist Surgical Clinic between 1970 and 1980) in 27 cases we performed a the surgical treatmeat with good immediate and late results. As a preliminary, execepting the endocrine balancing the improvement of the respiratory exchanges, the compensation of the possible heart disturbances and the ensurance of a good hydration and restoring of the nutritional state were followed.