REGİNA FRONTERA, MİRKO BARONE, MASSİMO IPPOLİTİ
Eurasian Journal of Medicine and Oncology - 2022;6(3):268-270
Faced with the complexity of emergency surgery and the aging of the population, it is increasingly common to have to deal with critically ill patients who require intensive care postoperatively. Surgical stress amplifies senescence mecha nisms where the organism is called to face the establishment of both early and late pathophysiological mechanisms disrupting homeostasis. In this scenario, sarcopenia represents a prognostic factor with a multifactorial etiology that can lead to fearful com plications in the early postoperative period. As an octogenarian adaptation, its multifactorial genesis allows to act and counterbalance the action of concomitant modifiable factors through post-operative optimization strategies.
