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  title info:
    title: Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly
  name:
    name part: Gerstenblith, Gary.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: online resource.
  abstract: As the number, availability, and often the invasiveness and associated risks of new cardiovascular treatments expands, health care providers are increasingly called upon to decide whether or not to recommend these therapies to the increasing numbers of older patients with cardiovascular disease. In Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly, a panel of clinicians, researchers, and leaders in the field review and discuss the latest findings on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of cardiovascular disease in the older patient. The authors explain the physiological changes associated with the normal aging process that may lead to the development of disease, to adverse consequences once disease develops, and which alter the risk-benefit equation for medical and other interventions designed to diagnose, assess, and treat cardiovascular disease. The focus is on particularly common syndromes in the elderly, including cardiac failure with normal ejection fraction, isolated systolic hypertension, and atrial fibrillation. Wherever possible, the authors take an evidence-based approach to recommendations and rely heavily on prospective clinical trials. The value of lifestyle changes in the aging population, the use of primary and secondary prevention strategies, and the treatment of acute and chronic ischemic disease and its complications are also discussed. Comprehensive and authoritative, Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly offers physicians and other providers who care for the older patient a gold-standard approach to understanding and managing cardiovascular disease in this group.
  table of contents: Aging of the Heart and Arteries -- Frailty -- Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Elderly -- Stable Coronary Artery Disease in the Elderly -- Age and Mortality and Morbidity in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction -- Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the Elderly -- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Elderly -- Cardiac Surgery in the Elderly -- Heart Failure in the Elderly -- Valvular Heart Disease in the Elderly -- Arrhythmia Management in the Elderly -- Peripheral Arterial Disease in the Elderly -- Cardiac Rehabilitation in Older Cardiac Patients -- Clinical Pharmacology -- Medical Treatment of the Cardiac Patient Approaching the End of Life.
  note: edited by Gary Gerstenblith.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Cardiology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Cardiology
  classification: RC681-688.2
  classification: 616.12
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contemporary Cardiology
  identifier: 9781592599417
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1385/1592599419
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20150519175144.0
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