(ISSN 2638-1311)
OBM Geriatrics is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. The journal takes the premise that innovative approaches – including gene therapy, cell therapy, and epigenetic modulation – will result in clinical interventions that alter the fundamental pathology and the clinical course of age-related human diseases. We will give strong preference to papers that emphasize an alteration (or a potential alteration) in the fundamental disease course of Alzheimer’s disease, vascular aging diseases, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, skin aging, immune senescence, and other age-related diseases.
Geriatric medicine is now entering a unique point in history, where the focus will no longer be on palliative, ameliorative, or social aspects of care for age-related disease, but will be capable of stopping, preventing, and reversing major disease constellations that have heretofore been entirely resistant to interventions based on “small molecular” pharmacological approaches. With the changing emphasis from genetic to epigenetic understandings of pathology (including telomere biology), with the use of gene delivery systems (including viral delivery systems), and with the use of cell-based therapies (including stem cell therapies), a fatalistic view of age-related disease is no longer a reasonable clinical default nor an appropriate clinical research paradigm.
Precedence will be given to papers describing fundamental interventions, including interventions that affect cell senescence, patterns of gene expression, telomere biology, stem cell biology, and other innovative, 21st century interventions, especially if the focus is on clinical applications, ongoing clinical trials, or animal trials preparatory to phase 1 human clinical trials.
Papers must be clear and concise, but detailed data is strongly encouraged. The journal publishes a variety of article types (Original Research, Review, Communication, Opinion, Comment, Conference Report, Technical Note, Book Review, etc.). There is no restriction on the length of the papers and we encourage scientists to publish their results in as much detail as possible.
Special Issue
Perioperative Care and Surgical Outcomes in Geriatric Patients
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2027 (Open) Submit Now
Guest Editor
Bogdan Socea, PhD
Associate Professor. Faculty of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
Research Interests: Abdominal emergencies; trauma; pancreatic cancer; acute pancreatitis; abdominal compartment syndrome; FAST, POCUS; colorectal cancer; abdominal wall defects: hernias and incisional hernias
About This Topic
Dear collaborators,
Geriatric patients represent a special category of patients from a surgical point of view. Their low reactivity makes clinical manifestations more atypical and diagnosis often difficult. The fragility of these patients, as well as possible other associated conditions, require specific peri- and postoperative care measures. Most of the time, major surgical interventions require much more active intensive therapy supportive measures in this category of patients to obtain similar outcomes to other age categories. On the other hand, with the evolution of medicine and the increase in average life expectancy, surgical pathology in the elderly has become increasingly frequent. We invite you to share your experience in caring for geriatric patients, so that the entire academic community can benefit from useful information.
Keywords
Perioperative care; geriatric patients; surgical outcomes; intensive care
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (geriatrics@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.
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