Cardiac Management in the Frail Elderly Patient and the Oldest Old

This book focuses specifically on the management of cardiovascular disease in elderly patients with particular frailties and in the "oldest old". It is clearly explained how treatment in these patients differs from that in patients in their seventies who respond well to therapies and do no...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Ungar, Andrea (Editor), Marchionni, Niccolò (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Subjects
Medicine.
Cardiology.
Nephrology.
Geriatrics.
Cardiac surgery.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319434681
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-43468-1
Physical DescriptionX, 177 p. 28 illus., 18 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction. The specificity of geriatric cardiology
  • 2 Epidemiology of heart disease in the elderly
  • 3 Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular aging
  • 4 Frailty and heart disease
  • 5 Evidence based medicine and evidence biased medicine in geriatric cardiology. From the trial to the real word
  • 6 Polypharmacy
  • 7 Syncope and Unexplained Falls in the elderly.- 8 Hypertension in the oldest old, beyond the guidelines.- 9 New challenges in aortic stenosis in the elderly: from epidemiology to TAVI.- 10 The aging kidney and cardiovascular disease
  • 11 Risk assessment in cardiac and non-cardiac surgery in the older patient
  • 12 Atrial fibrillation in the elderly
  • 13 Cardiac devices in the elderly
  • 14 Management of acute coronary syndromes in the elderly
  • 15 Cardiac surgery in the oldest old.

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